Op Drum - Somme Oct 2012

Albert

Basilica Albert

 

Royal Artillery Association Tyneside Scottish Branch

Tyneside Memorial Ceremony

 

 

RAA Tyneside Scottish Branch and Heaton Manor (Tyneside Scottish) Detachment Northumbria ACF
Tyneside Scottish memorial ceremony 

 

Observing two minutes silence

Wreath Laying

RAA Tyneside Scottish Branch
Tyneside Scottish Memorial La Bosiselle

  

Heaton Manor (Tyneside Scottish) Detachment Northumbria ACF
Tyneside Scottish Memorial La Bosiselle

 

Lochnagar Crater

 

Somme - Albert Trench Museum

The Somme Trench Museum is located in tunnels that run underneath to town of Albert. It contains some interesting vignettes that set the scene on activities and conditions of soldiers on the front.

Albert Somme Trench Museum

Somme - Albert

Albert lay just behind the British lines, dominated by the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières, with it's Golden Virin on it;s spire. On the 15th January 1915, it was hit by shell fire. The Virgin was knocked horizontal and near falling, superstitions from all the opposing armies originated as to what would happen if it ever fell.