Speaking about Robert Gordon Hamilton, WWI Soldier, Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, France
WW1 Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt in July18 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
During our annual trip to watch the Tour De France in July 2018 we stopped to pay our tributes to my great great uncle George Gibson. I visited his gave 20+ years ago -
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WW1 - Peronne - Mont St Quentin - Stuart Curry
WW1 Peronne & Mont St Quentin, Somme River, Western Front Battlefields, France
Help find the Photos and Identify WW1 Diggers from the Great War.
WW1 Cemeteries Collection - Remembering the Fallen (1)
The cemeteries and lost faces of the Great War, set to music.
Jack Barclay, Tincourt Cemetery, France Dec 07
WWI Cemetery
The somme-final.mp4
Visit to Dantzig Alley British War Cemetry, Mametz, Somme, France. Video made and edited by 11 year old gt gt grandson of 2nd Lt A H Cox who died 24th July 1916.
Commonwealth War Cemetery. Villers-Bretonneux. France. 2015-11-05
FRANCE: EXPLORING the WW1 BRITISH CEMETERY in BOULOGNE-SUR-MER ✝️⚱️
SUBSCRIBE: - Let's visit the Terlincthun British Cemetery which is situated on the northern outskirts of Boulogne, France. The cemetery now contains 4,378 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and more than 200 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German. Second World War burials number 149. The cemetery suffered considerable damage both from the shelling in 1940 and during the German occupation.
France, in Western Europe, encompasses medieval cities, alpine villages and Mediterranean beaches. Paris, its capital, is famed for its fashion houses, classical art museums including the Louvre and monuments like the Eiffel Tower. The country is also renowned for its wines and sophisticated cuisine. Lascaux’s ancient cave drawings, Lyon’s Roman theater and the vast Palace of Versailles attest to its rich history.
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Codford, Wiltshire, WW1 cemetery
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Loos British Cemetery, France
Views of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Loos British Cemetery, in France where we will be live streaming the funeral of four Canadian soldiers who lost their lives during the 1st World War.
Tune into the Canadian Armed Forces Facebook page, 7:30 a.m. Thurs. Aug. 23.
Peronne in the Somme region France
The main street in Peronne
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Reburial of Australian WWI soldier
(22 Jul 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide pan of military cemetery with officials and public
2. Various of graves with Australian soldiers in background
3. Wide of veterans with flags, standing at entrance to cemetery
4. Close of Australian soldier carrying Australian flag
5. Soldiers carrying coffin
6. Close up of Australian Army crest on a soldier's uniform
7. Soldiers carrying coffin in front of flags
8. Cutaway of cameraman
9. Coffin positioned above the grave with soldiers at attention
10. Soldiers firing a salute
11. Soldiers lowering coffin into grave
12. Wide of families watching the ceremony
13. Close of flowers with small Belgian and Australian flags on the grave, UPSOUND: Belgian national anthem
14. Close of new tombstone for Private Alan James Mather
15. John Mather, Private Mather's nephew, placing flower wreath on the grave
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Mather, nephew of Private Mather:
It gives us quite a bit of peace to know where he is. He's been missing for ninety-odd years, so it's a bit of a relief to know he's there, where he is.
17. Close of photograph of Private Mather in army uniform
18. Set up of head of forensics lab that identified Mather, Patrick Degryse
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Patrick Degryse, head of forensics lab that identified Mather:
When the body was found, we had a list, because of the unit the man was from, we had a list of 34 names that it could be, which the person could be. So we had to reduce this list to come to DNA analysis to have a positive confirmation of his identity. So what we did is use a chemical technique to get his chemical signature of this person and compare him to the birthplaces of those 34 names to reduce that list, together with the anthropological data of height, age, we came to a conclusion of two possible names of this list of 34 missing persons of this unit, of which we could do DNA analysis and then have a positive confirmation of identity.
20. Set up of head of archaeology team that found remains Martin Brown
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Martin Brown, head of archaeology team that found remains:
To be able to not only excavate someone and identify them, but then to see them buried with full military honours, more than they would have got even if they had been buried at the time, and also to meet and spend time with his family is something really remarkable, and as an archaeologist, it's not something you would get to do with any other time period, the Romans, the Medievals, certainly not prehistoric. It's beyond special. We're very honoured to be here.
22. Wide of flag bearers standing to attention with soldier in First World War uniform in background
23. Close reverse shot of soldier in First World War uniform, looking towards Ypres
STORYLINE
An Australian soldier discovered more than 90 years after a First World War battle was buried with full military honours in Ploegsteert, Belgium on Thursday morning.
The remains of Private Alan James Mather of Inverell, New South Wales, Australia, were discovered in August 2008 at the site of the Battle of Messines Ridge, which took place in June 1917.
Mather died aged 37 when a shell hit him.
He was serving with the 33rd Infantry Battalion, 9th Brigade, 3rd Australian Infantry Division at the time.
He was identified using a combination of bone tests, grave site analysis, and DNA testing.
His nephew, John Mather, flew all the way from Australia to attended the burial ceremony on Thursday.
John Mather said it gave him a bit of peace to know that his uncle had been laid to rest after being missing for more than 90 years.
More than 150 people, including several descendants and Australian and Belgian dignitaries, attended Mather's funeral.
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Arras Memorial and Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France
Video of this memorial and cemetery. CWGC says about this site ARRAS MEMORIAL commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period were the Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in the spring of 1918. Canadian and Australian servicemen killed in these operations are commemorated by memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bretonneux. A separate memorial remembers those killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. The adjacent ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL commemorates more than 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave. During the Second World War, Arras was occupied by United Kingdom forces headquarters until the town was evacuated on 23 May 1940. Arras then remained in German hands until retaken by Commonwealth and Free French forces on 1 September 1944. The 1939-1945 War burials number 8 and comprise 3 soldiers and 4 airmen from the United Kingdom and 1 entirely unidentified casualty. Located between the 2 special memorials of the 1914-1918 War is the special memorial commemorating an officer of the United States Army Air Force, who died during the 1939-1945 War. This special memorial, is inscribed with the words Believed to be buried in this cemetery. In addition, there are 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German. Both cemetery and memorials were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with sculpture by Sir William Reid Dick. We shall remember them.
John Strong Remembrance 27 August 2018 (Intro and Tolling of the Bell)
John William Strong was born in Burgh Heath on 9th July 1899 and baptised at St Andrew’s, Kingswood, on 3rd September.
He was the son of John and Florence Strong (nee Coe). His father was an engine driver and worked on the building of the Chipstead Valley Railway and John was probably born in a railway workers’ camp near Kingswood and Burgh Heath Station. In those days, Burgh Heath was considered to extend as far south as Waterhouse Lane, which we would nowadays think of as being Kingswood. The Strong family were nomadic, going wherever John senior’s work took him, and they had left the area by the time the line to Tattenham Corner had been completed.
John was living in Barking, Essex, when he was conscripted in 1917. He was mobilized two months after his 18th birthday and trained with the 16th Training Reserve Battalion at Bedford for three months before completing his training with the Royal West Kent Regiment. He would have expected to remain on the Home Front until he turned 19 but the German offensive of March 1918 inflicted heavy casualties and men were needed so the age for overseas service was lowered to 18 years old, provided that the young soldier had received at least six months of training. So it was that John was sent to France in mid-April, three months earlier than scheduled.
He was posted to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps but this was purely an administrative move as he was almost immediately attached to the 6th (City of London) Regiment (City of London Rifles). The Battalion had suffered 500 casualties in April and John joined them in the field in early May as part of a large draft of reinforcements.
John spent his 19th birthday in the trenches near Albert. The line here was 5 miles behind the old 1916 Somme front line, the British having been pushed back 40 miles in just a few days by the German offensive of four months earlier, losing the gains of 1917. There was much work to be done to fortify their new positions and new arrivals to train as American troops joined them to learn about life in the front line.
The Germans launched their final offensive in July. Although initially successful, it was stopped in its tracks after a few days and the Allies delivered a counterattack that forced the Germans back. By now the Allies had absorbed the lessons of the last two years and finally put together all of the ingredients for a war-winning offensive of their own, taking the first step to victory with the Battle of Amiens on 8th August, a surprise attack in which John’s City of London Rifles fought on the left flank and sustained over 300 casualties. After a week’s pause, a series of blows was then struck, one every few days at different points along the line, pummeling the Germans. On 27th August, John was killed while the British struck one of those blows, near Maricourt. He was buried overlooking the River Somme and later exhumed and reburied at Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt. He was 19 years old.
Researched and presented by James Crouch of the Banstead History Research Group (bansteadhistory.com)
Battle for Peronne
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WW1 Somme Tour - Some different sights
This is a short tour that will take you from Albert, France through to Peronne and back with some interesting places to visit.
GPS Locations
La Boiselle Crater (Not on the video but worth a visit)
N 50 00.948, E 2 41.843
Start/Finish point
N 50 01.387, E 2 43.848
Fricourt Cemetery
N 50 00.253, E 2 42.858
Bray-sur-Somme Junction
N 49 56.323, E 2 43.086
Cappy
N 49 55.597, E 2 45.402
Fay
N 49 53.225, E 2 48.300
Peronne (Museum Parking area)
N 49 55.823, E 2 55.876
Rancourt
N 49 59.874, E 2 54.632
Longueval
N 50 01.453, E 2 48.536
Cemetery at Contalmaison
N 50 01.196, E2 45.511
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British military cemetery at Koksijde, Belgium
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The British military cemetery at Koksijde, Belgium is located very close to where the front would have been in WW1. In June 1917, Commonwealth forces relieved French forces on 6 kilometres of front line from the sea to a point south of Nieuport (now Nieuwpoort), and held this sector for six months. Koksijde (or Coxyde as it was then called) was about 10 kilometres behind the front line. The village was used for rest billets and was occasionally shelled, but the cemetery, which had been started by French troops, was found to be reasonably safe. It became the most important of the Commonwealth cemeteries on the Belgian coast and was used at night for the burial of the dead brought back from the front line. The French returned to the sector in December 1917 and continued to use the cemetery, and during 1918, Commonwealth naval casualties from bases in Dunkirk were buried there. After the Armistice, graves were brought into the cemetery from isolated sites and from other cemeteries in the area.
The cemetery was used again during the Second World War, chiefly for the burial of casualties sustained during the defence of the Dunkirk perimeter in May 1940.
The cemetery now contains 1,507 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the French graves from this period having since been removed. Of the 154 Second World War burials, 22 are unidentified. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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John Strong Remembrance 27 August 2018 (Eulogy and Prayers)
John William Strong was born in Burgh Heath on 9th July 1899 and baptised at St Andrew’s, Kingswood, on 3rd September.
He was the son of John and Florence Strong (nee Coe). His father was an engine driver and worked on the building of the Chipstead Valley Railway and John was probably born in a railway workers’ camp near Kingswood and Burgh Heath Station. In those days, Burgh Heath was considered to extend as far south as Waterhouse Lane, which we would nowadays think of as being Kingswood. The Strong family were nomadic, going wherever John senior’s work took him, and they had left the area by the time the line to Tattenham Corner had been completed.
John was living in Barking, Essex, when he was conscripted in 1917. He was mobilized two months after his 18th birthday and trained with the 16th Training Reserve Battalion at Bedford for three months before completing his training with the Royal West Kent Regiment. He would have expected to remain on the Home Front until he turned 19 but the German offensive of March 1918 inflicted heavy casualties and men were needed so the age for overseas service was lowered to 18 years old, provided that the young soldier had received at least six months of training. So it was that John was sent to France in mid-April, three months earlier than scheduled.
He was posted to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps but this was purely an administrative move as he was almost immediately attached to the 6th (City of London) Regiment (City of London Rifles). The Battalion had suffered 500 casualties in April and John joined them in the field in early May as part of a large draft of reinforcements.
John spent his 19th birthday in the trenches near Albert. The line here was 5 miles behind the old 1916 Somme front line, the British having been pushed back 40 miles in just a few days by the German offensive of four months earlier, losing the gains of 1917. There was much work to be done to fortify their new positions and new arrivals to train as American troops joined them to learn about life in the front line.
The Germans launched their final offensive in July. Although initially successful, it was stopped in its tracks after a few days and the Allies delivered a counterattack that forced the Germans back. By now the Allies had absorbed the lessons of the last two years and finally put together all of the ingredients for a war-winning offensive of their own, taking the first step to victory with the Battle of Amiens on 8th August, a surprise attack in which John’s City of London Rifles fought on the left flank and sustained over 300 casualties. After a week’s pause, a series of blows was then struck, one every few days at different points along the line, pummeling the Germans. On 27th August, John was killed while the British struck one of those blows, near Maricourt. He was buried overlooking the River Somme and later exhumed and reburied at Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt. He was 19 years old.
Researched and presented by James Crouch of the Banstead History Research Group (bansteadhistory.com)