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Somme Battlefields
Butte de Warlencourt
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General view of the Butte de Warlencourt on 2 July 1917, after its capture by Allied forces.
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I don`t have many photographs of this location but have included a selection from the Imperial War Museum archives etc*
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Above left: A general view of the Butte de Warlencourt burial mound, 27 August 1918. Various memorial crosses were erected on the summit after its capture.
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Above left: British on the top of the Butte de Warlencourt in August 1918 showing the memorial erected on the summit to commemorate South African troops.
On the right, Spanish Army officers, on a visit to the Western Front in March 1917, stand on top of the Butte de Warlencourt and survey the surrounding desolate and waterlogged terrain so bitterly fought over by British and German forces.
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Above left: Men of the 2nd Australian Division taking up bombs to the forward area by light railway ​in March 1917. The Butte de Warlencourt is in the background. Right: On  27 August 1918, during the Battle of Albert, guns and limbers of the Royal Field Artillery pass a mine crater in the road in front of Warlencourt.
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King George V climbing the Butte on 13 July 1917. The other image shows Superintendent Patrick Quinn of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch at the 9th Battalion Durhan Light Infantry Memorial on the summit. Both photographs were taken on 13 July 1917.
Please bear in mind that all images on this website are Copyright. They are not free to use and have been embedded with a digital watermark. The black & white photographs from the Imperial War Museum`s collection have been used courtesy of its `Share & Reuse` policy and are also subject to copyright restrictions.
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