Walking The Battlefields

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The Memorial Hall, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire

The 1st July 1916 casualties listed in the Memorial Hall at Swavesey prompted the odyssey that has taken me to hundreds of battlefields all over the world. At least once a year I return to where my quest started - the small village of Becourt where so many lads from the Cambridge Fens were mown down by the chattering machine guns at La Boisselle and in the trenches around the Heligoland Redoubt. The walk from Becourt Chateau through to Gordon Dump via Lochnager has become something of a pilgrimage for me.

`The 11th Battalion, The Suffolk regiment. The premier on-line resource for this New Army Battalion. Visit the index page to access the full archive.`	`Come with me and walk the battlefields of the world. Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Northern France, Africa, Italy, Greece, The Czeck Republic, etc. A recent addition to this set covers the Italian Front in 1917 including the Battle of Caporetto and retreat from the Isonzo to the Piave.` `The very latest material relates to the Battle of the Narva Bridgehead in 1944.`	`This project originally derived from "The Swavesey Chronicles" a set of stories about Swavesey and The Great War. The material of interest to anyone looking to explore the impact of the Great War on a typical rural community.`
`The Cambs Suffolks`	* `Battlefield Visits` *	`The Swavesey Chronicles`
`Following the relocation of the Lloyds TSB's Head Office from Lombard Street to Gresham Street in the City of London, it became necessary to resite the old Lloyds Bank War Memorial. This is the story of how this project bacame a fascinating journey into the past.`	`Arthur Taylor, a veteran of the Crimean War. Bernard Taylor, Royal Marine from the Great War. Alfred Baker a veteran from the 1860 China Campaign. Plus post war photographs of V1 sites from Joan Curme.`	`This is a project designed to document Clevedon local War Memorials. In fact the word 'war memorial' is a bit of a misnomer since Clevedon, almost uniquely, has a 'peace memorial' as it's main focus of remembrance.`
`Lloyds Bank Memorial`	`Family Archive`	`Memorials of Clevedon`

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