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Images from across the Western Front. In memory of my Great-Grand Uncle, Thomas Ridsdale - 8th & 10th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment).
Tyne Cot - Silent but Never Forgotten.
The largest commenwealth in the world with 11,961 Commenwealth servicemen of the First World War, 4 German burials and almost 35,000 servicemen from UK and New Zealand who died after August 1917 with no known graves.
Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing
Dusk falls in Ypres with the Menin Gate and ramparts reflected in the Kasteelgracht (Castle Moat).
Ypres, Belgium. June 2025
Misty Morning - Cloth Hall, Ypres (Ieper)
Cloth Hall from Grote Market on a cold, misty autumn morning in Ieper.
Thiepval - The Last Witness
The fields leading up from Thiepval wood reveal the scars of former trenches mirroring the shape of the memorial beyond. A shadow in the lower left appears to resemble a crouched soldier..
Loos Battlefield
Bois-Carre Military Cemetery with the triangular shapes of the Loos Double Crassier shrouded in mist.
Tyne Cot & Passchendaele
Evening summer light bathes Tyne Cot cemetery with Passchendaele village beyond in the Flanders countryside.
Cloth Hall - St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres
Aerial view of the central area of Ypres around the Grote Markt.
Ypres, Belgium
Thiepval
Looking across the River Ancre valley up to the Thiepval Memorial sitting high on the ridge with the Somme battlefields bathed in afternoon autumn light. The Somme, France.
Thiepval Revealed
A brief gap in the low cloud reveals the Thiepval memorial among the autumn trees. The Somme, France.
Thiepval Memorial - Autumn Colours
Thiepval memorial and Anglo-French cemetery set among autumn colours with the village and Monquet Farm beyond.
Thiepval Memorial - Dusk
A perfectly calm, silent, misty autumn afternoon looking to the memorial on the Thiepval ridge. It commemorates over 72,000 servicemen with no known grave who perished during WW1. The Somme, France.
Ulster Tower - Autumn Fog
Ulster Tower shrouded in morning fog.
Somme, France.
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.
Mametz Wood - The Somme
Foggy autumn morning above the woods at Mametz site of fierce fighting during The Battle of the Somme in July 1916.
Morning Above Albert - Somme
Looking north above the city of Albert. The golden virgin sculpture atop of the Basilica Notre Dame de Brebiers is lit by the early morning light. Further beyond the Somme countryside merges into the distant fog.
Somme - Autumn Colour
Autumn colours of the Bazentin le Petit wood.
Somme, France.