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Serre - Redan Ridge Dusk.
Dusk light falls on the cemeteries and former battlefields of the Great War. Serre Road No 1 cemetery, the Necropole Nationale de Serre-Hebuterne & Chapel, Memorial of the Bradford Pal & West Yorkshire.
Somme, France.
Serre Road Cemetery No 2 - Redan Ridge
Serre Road No 2 cemetery, the Redan ridge with several smaller cemeteries beyond at dusk. The hamlet of Beaumont Hamel and Thiepval Memorial are both visible.
Somme, France.
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Looking across Lijssenthoek cemetery to Poperinge on a misty autumn morning. The main road running through the upper centre was once the Hazebrouck-Poperinge railway line. The Royal Engineers built the Remy siding along this road to evacuate patients from the nearby hospital. The hospital extended from the centre of the picture to the road and beyond.
Flanders, Belgium
Lijssenthoek Cemetery - Autumn Morning
Looking south beyond Lijssenthoek cemetery to France, Boeschepe and Mont des Cats on a misty autumn morning.
Flanders, Belgium
Newfoundland Park Memorial
The bronze cast Caribou , the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, overlooking the battlefield where so many of its soldiers were killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Somme, France.
Beaucourt Hamel Station
The now disused station, rebuilt after the Battle of the Somme and became a popular station café. Now, it is disused, and derelict.
Somme, France.
Fricourt German Cemetery
A foggy autumn day on the Somme creates an ethereal atmosphere in the Fricourt German cemetery where some 17,000 are buried.
Fricourt, Somme, France.
Menen German War Cemetery
Autumn leaves fall on to the granite gravestones arranged in geometric precision. Almost 48,000 are buried here, making it the largest German war cemetery in Belgium.
Wevelgem, Belgium
Ulster Tower - The Somme
The Ulster Tower - memorial to men of 36th Division who died on the Western Front and Thiepval, 1 July 1916. Located on the front line trench attacked by the 9th Royal Irish Rifles.
Somme, France.
The Lille Gate (Rijselpoort), Ieper/Ypres
An integral part of the ramparts, fortified by the French military engineer Vauban in the late 17th century, the Lille Gate is the original southern gateway into the old fortified city. During WW1 the round towers provided protection against the German artillery shells and the British Army used them as a location for unit(s) HQ.
Ypres, Belgium.
The Menin Gate Northern Stairwell - Ypres
The northern stairwell lit by a solitary lamp and lined with poppy Wreaths following Remembrance Day on Nov 11th 2025. Thousands of names of missing British and Commonwealth soldiers from the First World War are inscribed on the walls.
Ypres, Belgium.
17mm TS-E
Menin Gate - Remembrance Day Poppy Wreaths
Inside the Menin Gate poppy wreaths are laid in quiet trubute to the fallen of World War 1. While each wreath tells its own story it is a collective act of memory and gratitude, of sacrifices that will never be forgotten.
Ypres, Belgium.
Menin Gate - Dusk
Looking across the Ieperlee (Yperlee) to The Menin Gate at dusk in Ypres.
Ypres, Belgium
Autumn Light-Menin Gate, Ypres
Looking down on to the Menin Gate in the early autumn, warm, soft light with Sint-Jacobskerk beyond.
Ypres, Belgium. Drone.
Canadian National Memorial, Vimy
Allward's magnificent memorial to the fallen Canadian soldiers on the highest point of Vimy Ridge.
Arras. France. 17mm TS-E.
Cadiz at Dawn
Looking on to Cadiz, its waterfront and Cathedral at dawn.
Cadiz, Spain.
Port of Cartagena
Sunrise at the entrance to the historic port of Cartagena, Mediterranean Sea.
Cartagena, Spain.
The Constitution of 1812 Bridge, Cadiz.
The Constitution of 1812 Bridge (La Pepa Bridge) stretching across the Bay of Cadiz with a spectacular sunrise beyond.
Cadiz, Spain
Bay of Palma
Looking across the Bay of Palma to the Cathedral of Santa Maria of Palma with the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range beyond.
Palma, Majorca.