Fricourt German War Cemetery
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Fricourt Cemetery
Jack Sturiano reads to the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship over the graves of two of Sassoon's colleagues, David Thomas and 'Dickie' Richardson.
Fricourt - German Cemetery
Fricourt German war cemetery is near the village of Fricourt, near Albert, in the French département of the Somme. Most of the fallen were members of the Imperial German 2nd Army
Peake Wood Cemetery, Fricourt.
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Capture of Fricourt
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Fricourt was 3 miles from Albert, north of Bray and west of Mametz, near the D 938 road and at the junction of the D 147 with the D 64.The village was 20 miles north-east of Amiens and on the route of the Albert–Péronne light railway.Fricourt Wood was north-east of the village, with a château on the edge of the village and a number of craters, known as the Tambour on the west side.Fricourt formed a salient in the German front-line and was the principal German fortified village between the River Somme and the Ancre.
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FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE 8 | Battlefield Tour Day 1 - Fricourt German Cemetery
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we join the students and PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN on their visit to the German cemetery at FRICOURT.
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MUSIC | Ich hatt' einen Kameraden by Friedrich Silcher/Ludwig Uhland - TruthForLies, Community Audio, The Internet Archive archive.org/about/.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Minkratrarna vid the Tambour, Fricourt, Somme
Minkratrarna vid the Tambour, Fricourt, Somme (se Nils Fabiansson, Historien om västfronten: I spåren av första världskriget, Norstedts förlag 2014).
Communes de la Somme / Fricourt
Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood.
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Bertangles Communal Cemetery
0:15 Lieutenant James Arthur Miller
1:00 Former grave of Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
The Western Front 100 years on (1) - Albert, La Boiselle, Pozières, Fricourt, Mametz
Visit to the Somme, February 2019
Albert, La Boiselle, Pozières, Fricourt, Mametz
Bapaume Post Cemetery
Lochnagar Crater
Ovillers Cemetery
Pozières Memorial
Pozières Cemetery
1st Australian Division Memorial
KRRC Memorial
Peake Wood Cemetery
Fricourt German Cemetery
38th (Welsh) Division Memorial - The Red Dragon
Flatiron Copse Cemetery
Devonshire Cemetery
Gordon Cemetery
Carnoy Cemetery
Music: Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture
Mory Abbey Military Cemetery
On 19 March 1917, two young British airmen, Captain Eldred Bowyer-Bower and Second Lieutenant Eric Elgey, were attacked and shot out of the skies above Arras by a German ace. After crashing to the ground behind enemy lines both Bowyer-Bower and Elgey were buried next to their plane.
Just days afterwards, and following the retreat of German forces to the Hindenburg Line, Captain Thomas Bowyer-Bower was determined to find the graves in order to give his son Eldred a proper burial. Something against all the odds he was able to do.
#Arras100
Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Fricourt
0:45 Former grave of Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen
1:50 Alfred Zurndorfer
Please note Berlin was the second to last resting place for Richthofenand his final resting place is in Wiesbaden.
Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. (Volksbund)
1916, France: British & Captured German POWs - 221806-08
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[WWI - 1916, France: British & Captured German POWs & Equipment]
Lancashires return w/ wounded carried & blind guided; prisoners marched & carrying wounded file past. 02:57:38 Royal Field Artillery pieces pulled by mules over captured terrain near Mametz; resting. British watching explosions near La Boisselle. Dantzig Alley held by a battalion of Manchesters, resting in trench w/ captured trench mortar.
03:01:02 Minden Post w/ arrival of wounded British soldiers / Tommies.
03:01:27 Pans of German battered position & destruction at Fricourt w/ underground dugouts. Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry labor battalion repairing roads (brief).
03:04:02 Completely destroyed village of Mametz & German position.
03:05:59 Captured German trench mortars carried by groups of four British soldiers; field artillery from captured battery pulled by horse teams on road near La Boiselle / La Boisselle. CU graffiti on artillery: “Captured by 7th Division”.
03:07:31 Lancashire Fusiliers assemble for roll call after battle, resting on dirt bank & in wide trench. Pan around rest site & sleeping troops. Others gathered & walking about.
03:09:15 Royal Fusiliers in field / camp site sitting about relaxing & watching camera, wave.
WW1 British Army Soldiers; 1910s; Battle of the Somme 01Jul-18Nov16;
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70% of those buried here are unidentified. Each grave represents a name on the Thiepval Memorial.
It is known that the poet Lieutenant Wilfred Owen served in this area with his unit the 2nd Bn Manchester Regiment. It is believed that somewhere between what is now the cemetery and the French Chapel is where Owen spent a period in a captured German bunker during January 1917.
His battalion was doing turn about with the 15th Bn Highland Light Infantry, holding the position which was almost as Owen was to put it: …not at the front but in front of it.
He wrote to his mother on 16th January 1917 how after wading through the mud and water he had to endure fifty hours of agony during which one of the sentries was blown down the steps by a bombardment.
The soldier had been blinded by the blast and the incident is thought to have inspired Owen later on in the year to write the poem: The Sentry.
There we herded from the blast
Of whizz-bangs, but one found our door at last.
Buffeting eyes and breath, snuffing the candles.
And thud! flump! thud! down the steep steps came thumping
And splashing in the flood, deluging muck —
The sentry’s body; then his rifle, handles
Of old Boche bombs, and mud in ruck on ruck.
We dredged him up, for killed, until he whined
“O sir, my eyes — I’m blind — I’m blind, I’m blind!”
Any questions, please contact right away. Kindly, Luke Woods
Polygon Wood (2017-04-19)
Walking through Polygon Wood, visiting the bunker at Scott Post, and finishing at Polygon Wood Cemetery.
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