Virtual Tours over the Artois Battlefield. Photo Impressions

[Pierre Grande Guerre]

Dear Pickelhaube Friends,

I finished my chapters of Photo Impressions about the Artois Battlefields in France. For some years Madame GG. and I visited, with intervals of course, the Artois battlefields.
For this season I completed these series of 8 Photo Impressions, covering many Artois battlefields of the periods 1914-1918. This region shows at its best, what a World War really meant; besides the German, French, and British units, we will meet also silent witnesses of units of Portugal, the nowadays Czech Republic, Poland, British India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These Photo Impressions are:

- Neuve Chapelle – Richebourg
- La Targette - Cabaret Rouge
- Notre Dame de Lorette
- Loos
- Aubers Ridge - Fromelles - Pheasant Wood
- Arras Wellington Quarry
- Vimy Ridge
- Lichfield Crater

As a consequence of the release of these last Artois Photo Impressions I changed the routing of the Artois webpages. Below some Artois pages I changed the links to the next page. With the new routing the visitor is now able to follow the traces of the several Artois Battles in chronological order, from 1914 until 1918, from Neuve Chapelle until Vimy.

Before you enter a visit to my virtual tour over these battlefields of nowadays, I must friendly warn you. In these pages there are in total more than 800 pictures, modern maps, period maps, period pictures, and of course mainly my own photo’s of the memorials, cemeteries and (concrete) relics of nowadays.
I am afraid that it might be too much to view and read all these pages in one visit. Therefore I would like to advise you to take your pick or preferably to start at the first page of the route, visit some 2 or 3 pages, and return another time for a next visit to see it all.

Any way I hope you, my Pickelhaube Friends here, will do enjoy your visits to my Artois Battlefield Photo Impressions. Thanks in advance for visiting my website.

Pierre

 

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Pierre - Again, I am deeply indebted to you for your labor of love in collecting and organizing these images. I have not as yet been to the Western Front and so your images serve to bring the Western Front to me.
With deepest gratitude,

Eric

 

[Pierre Grande Guerre]

Eric, Thanks a lot for your kind words of appreciation. Reading this kind of messages always do encourage my motivation to continue with sharing my explorations as long as nature allows me to do. If you prefer to be on my update news letter mailing list, Eric, please, send me in private an e-mail. Thanks again!