Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Back in 1987 a friend won a bursary to interview and photograph World War One veterans in Europe. Two things were against this: 1) He couldn't drive, so that is where I came in 2) Neither he nor the award givers were good at basic arithmetic. Any veteran was going to be mid-80s and upwards so would not be hanging around the RSA bars! In a nutshell, we did not meet any WWI veterans but did quite a few WWII ones who tended the cemeteries. So we went off with no real knowledge or plan, camped just outside Iepre (aka Ypres) and drove about photographing........ My images are at http://johnmcmaster.com/PESO/WWI C & C welcome John - all Hasselblad (I cannot remember what I used, certainly an SWC and 150mm - not sure if 50mm or 80mm as well but most look 38mm or 150mm shots) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Links to the various sites, I looked them up to remind myself: Beaumont Hamel (Newfoundland) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_Royal_Naval_Reserve Bedford cemetery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_House_Commonwealth_War_Graves_Commissio n_Cemetery Hill 62 (Canadian) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_62_Memorial Langemarck cemetery (German) - http://www.greatwar.co.uk/ypres-salient/cemetery-langemark.htm Menin Gate - http://www.greatwar.co.uk/ypres-salient/cemetery-langemark.htm Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme - http://ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/thiepvalmemorial.htm Tyne Cot cemetery - http://ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/tynecotcemetery.htm - this is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world Vimy Ridge (Canadian) - http://ww1cemeteries.com/ww1frenchextension/vimy_memorial.htm There so many cemeteries in that area that you just keep finding more and more, many are for a single commonwealth country. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++