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Above: the recreated trenches in the grounds of 'Ocean Villas Tea Rooms' at Auchonvillers
Right: the Tommy's helmet had been dug up the day before
Photo Gallery:
The Somme
Sir Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the MIssing (with 73,000 names) at Thiepval
Ruined landscapes - 1: grassed over humps are all that remain of a major German strongpoint known as The Windmill, at Pozières, now preserved as an Australian memorial
Traces of the old Western Front: preserved trenches at the Newfoundland Memorial Park at Beaumont Hamel
Ruined landscapes - 3: the enormous Lochnagar Crater at La Boisselle - the largest crater on the Western Front (note people sitting on a bench near the top of the photo)
Ruined landscapes - 2: traces of the second line trench system near Serre
Rolls of barbed wire, with a 'screw picket' - a metal rod to hold up barbed wire, with a screw-shaped end to insert it quietly into the ground in No Man's Land at night
Shells are still dug up by farmers more than 90 years on and left by the roadside for professional disposal (remains should NEVER be touched)
Beautifully maintained Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries dot the Somme countryside. Two different small cemeteries - in June (left) and December (right)
