This image is of the French Cemetery at the village of Serre that commemorate those French soldiers KIA during the First Battle of the Somme


This series of images is of the French Cemetery the Necropole National de Serre-Hebuterne at the village of Serre that commemorate those French soldiers who were killed during the First Battle of the Somme in June 1915 and the gratitude of the French to men of the West Yorkshire Regiment, Bradford Pals who undertook recovery of those bodies, who one year later would find themselves on the 1 July 1916 involved in the First Day of the Battle of the Somme with many British Commonwealth soldiers being buried in the adjacent CWGC cemeteries of Serre Road 1,2 & 3.


Size: 5000px × 3750px
Location: Serre, Hebuterne, Beaumont Hemel, Somme, France
Photo credit: © Allan Hartley / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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