Showing posts with label Sanctuary Wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sanctuary Wood. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 October 2012

Op Drum - Sanctuary Wood Trenches

 
Visited Sanctuary Wood trenches with Heaton Manor (Tyneside Scottish) Detachment Northumbria ACF.

Great opportunity to get into the trenches and tell the cadets about how the soldiers lived and died in those surroundings. leading the whole contingent through the long tunnel in total darkness was an interesting experience.


Sanctuary Wood
Northumbria ACF in the trenches

Though less than convinced with the group photo on the Colours.....................

Sanctuary Wood Trenches
Heaton Manor (Tyneside Scottish) Detachement ACF




Monday, 3 May 2010

Ypres 2010 - Sanctuary Wood Trenches

In June 1915 the Northumbrian Division moved into Trenches at Sanctuary Wood.

The Fiftieth Division 1914 - 1919 Everard Wyrall details their deployment;

"I.30 C8.8 to I.24.d.9.9 lay on both sides of Observatory Ridge-Zilibeke Road, the Right flank at the southern edge of Armagh Wood, and the northern at the south-eastern edge of Sanctuary Wood"



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