Editorial correction: Sorry folks, I try to post information as accurate as possible but once in awhile one slips through the cracks. The two pictures shown here, including the one on the left I posted yesterday was mislabeled as the graves of Welsh fusiliers. They are, in fact, the graves of German soldiers in Vermelles. The picture on the right are graves with unidentified occupants. Here is the post description. Vermelles Vermelles village lies around three miles south of Cuinchy, and at least for part of the War was another hot-spot. In Goodbye to All That Robert Graves describes the village as having been taken and retaken eight times last October (that is, 1914). When Graves was billeted there in June 1915 he records that not a single house remained undamaged. It was then only three-quarters of a mile from the British front line, and yet Graves and his fellow soldiers played a cricket match in the village, screened by the remains of houses from enemy observation. As Vermelles was so close to the front line during the War, it was not surprising that casulaties were buried in small clusters in this village. The two pictures below both show graves in Vermelles during or shortly after the War. The top picture shows six German graves in what appears to be a back garden, and the lower one two graves (the nationality of those who lay here is not known) in the ruins of the village. Thanks to Dom Paul for the correction. Merci à Dom Paul pour la correction. Dank Dom Paul für die Korrektur.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:58:33 +0000
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