Crimson Coast Day 1
Apr. 27th, 2019 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitThis year TD (The Daughter) and I went on a WWI tour which concentrated on what was happening behind the scenes, as opposed to on the battlefield. It was based on the Opal Coast, and took its title from the BBC series The Crimson Field.
We began in Montreuil-sur-Mer, which was the Headquarters of the British Western Front command:
And here is General Haig himself:
And the church:
It's clear the memorial to those who died from the town commemorated above is taken from the Pieta in the church.
In the afternoon we visited the big Commonwealth War Graves cemetary in Etaples:
Etaples had a big military cemetary, so it wasn't just soldiers who were buried here:
And there were all races too:
From there we went to Wimereux Military Cemetary, where Lt-Col John McCrae, who wrote In Flanders Fields is buried.
Our final stop of the day was at the memorial to the Dover Patrol. As you can see, there was a sea mist.
We began in Montreuil-sur-Mer, which was the Headquarters of the British Western Front command:
And here is General Haig himself:
And the church:
It's clear the memorial to those who died from the town commemorated above is taken from the Pieta in the church.
In the afternoon we visited the big Commonwealth War Graves cemetary in Etaples:
Etaples had a big military cemetary, so it wasn't just soldiers who were buried here:
And there were all races too:
From there we went to Wimereux Military Cemetary, where Lt-Col John McCrae, who wrote In Flanders Fields is buried.
Our final stop of the day was at the memorial to the Dover Patrol. As you can see, there was a sea mist.
