July 20 - WWI sites - Beaumont-Hamel

Beaumont-Hamel is the site of the Newfoundland Memorial.  Newfoundland, not being part of Canada until 1949, has their own memorial site.  The trenches, much like at Vimy have been kept so that visitors can go in them, and appreciate what a blind activity trench warfare must have been.

 In Flanders Fields...

 looking back along one of the communications trenches to the Caribou monument.  The Caribou is the the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.

 The Danger Tree - a single tree from a group that somehow was standing during the attack on July 1, 1916 (now a replica).  The tree located in no-mans land was used as a land mark and gathering point.

 Stay on the path please...

 The group of trees in the distance are growing in the Hawthorne Crater, a result of the detonation of about 40,000lbs of explosives under a German stronghold on Hawthorn ridge. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8YfJmwY5Uo)

 Some of the staff of the Government of Canada - our official groundskeepers.

 Shooting from the trenches