WW1 Battlefield Guide Richard Porter

Name: WW1 Battlefield Guide Richard Porter
Address: Hardecourt-aux-Bois, 80360, FR
Telephone: +447876611408
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WW1 Battlefield Guide Richard Porter

Western Front Battlefield Guide, conducting historical tours of the WW1, Great War Battlefields. Privately conducted bespoke Western Front battlefield tours.
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I have a strong belief that the best way of understanding what happened on any battlefield is to have a good and well informed knowledge of the soldier, along with an intimate feel for the ground. I have a specific interest in the Great War, particularly the Western Front. From a very young age I remember finding history in general fascinating and over the years I have built up a substantial colle

ction of books on military history along with medals and militaria. I served with the Royal Marines for 7 years and believe that during my time in the forces I acquired my own personal experience of the military and how it operates. It was during this period in the early 1990's that I began to tour the battlefields of the Western Front. I am a member of the Western Front Association, a Friend of Lochnagar, a member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides and the European Tour Operators Association. I am actively involved in various historical projects which include archeological and archival studies of Great War sites

20/05/2021

Rossignol Wood on the Somme Battlefield. A very interesting place to explore and see what remains of original trenches.

19/04/2021

A British artillery shell on the edge of Wood Lane with High Wood in the background.

02/04/2021

One of the largest piles of iron harvest I have seen for a long time! Somme Battlefield near Ovillers.

29/03/2021

I thought I would take a little detour on today’s run to visit the German bunker/ observation post on the SW corner of Leuze (Lousy) Wood. It’s been a while since I last visited and I guess there’s very few that have seen it in the last year. Hopefully that will all change soon.

26/03/2021

London Cemetery & Ext is one of five cemeteries in the immediate vicinity of Longueval which together contain more than 15,000 graves. It’s the third largest cemetery on the Somme with 3,873 First World War burials, 3,114 of them unidentified.

25/03/2021

London Cemetery Extension was used in 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the reburial of Second World War casualties recovered from various temporary burial grounds, French military cemeteries, small communal cemeteries, churchyards and isolated graves, where permanent maintenance was not possible. These graves are in one central plot at the extreme end of the cemetery, behind the Cross of Sacrifice. Second World War burials number 165.

17/03/2021

Owl Trench Cemetery. “Owl Trench” was a German cross-trench before Rossignol Wood. The cemetery contains 53 First World War burials. Row A is a mass grave for 46 soldiers, 43 of whom belonged to the 16th West Yorkshires. Ten of the burials in the cemetery are unidentified.

12/03/2021

Sucrerie Military Cemetery. 285 French and 12 German graves were removed from the cemetery after the Armistice. Between 1933 and 1934 some of these gaps were refilled after 210 graves, found on the battlefields of the Somme, were added. There are now 1103 burials in the cemetery

09/03/2021

The magnificent entrance to Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery. There are 2,146 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 609 of the burials are unidentified.

02/03/2021

Guillemont Road Cemetery was begun by fighting units (mainly of the Guards Division) and field ambulances after the Battle of Guillemont, and was closed in March 1917, when it contained 121 burials. The original plot is very clear in this birds eye view.

28/02/2021

The British observation post overlooking Gommecourt Park. No crops around it at the moment so it’s easy to walk around and appreciate.

27/02/2021

Iron Harvest on the edge of Rossignal Wood, on the battlefields around Gommecourt.

22/02/2021

The large Cross of Sacrifice at Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery. By 1937, more than 1,000 of Blomfield's crosses had been erected in France and Belgium.

17/02/2021

New Zealand Battlefield Memorial on the Somme. In the Battles of the Somme, 1916, the New Zealand Division fought for 23 consecutive days. They advanced more than two miles and captured five miles of enemy front line.

14/02/2021

Courcelette British Cemetery was begun in November 1916 and used until March 1917. Originally 74 burials, increased to nearly 2,000 burials after the war.

12/02/2021

Fricourt New Military Cemetery was created as four big graves, made by the 10th West Yorkshire Regiment after the capture of Fricourt in July 1916, and a few single graves of September 1916.

10/02/2021

Regina Trench Cemetery on the Somme Battlefield.

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80360

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