Pozieres Cemetery and Mametz Wood, May 2007

Pozieres Cemetery


Pozieres Cemetery


Pozieres Cemetery


38th (Welsh) Division memorial, Mametz Wood. On the day of our visit, the valley resounded to the calls of song thrushes from the wood.


38th (Welsh) Division memorial, Mametz Wood - detail


Flatiron Copse Cemetery


Flatiron Copse Cemetery


Flatiron Copse Cemetery - for detail of the headstones below the trees top centre, see next photo


Flatiron Copse Cemetery - the inscription on the pillar reads: "To the memory of these nine soldiers of the British Empire killed in action in 1916 and buried at the time in Mametz Wood Cemetery whose graves were destroyed in later battles. Their glory shall not be blotted out"