Peronne has an interesting WW1 museum housed in the local castle,
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After lunch, we headed out to explore the Somme area, dropping into Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.
The Memorial has inscribed on its pillars the names of the 72,000 men from the commonwealth who died in the Somme but have no known grave.
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The area is littered with cemeteries, memorials and battlefield remains.
We stopped at a few taking in the scale of the actions around us.
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We had a guest arriving that night plus the covid tests to perform, so headed back to the hotel late pm.
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Sven from Belgium popped down for a beer and meal, the joined us on Sunday as we headed out to our next spot.
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Next door to the tank museum is a cwgc cemetery where Alan's great uncle is buried, where we paid our respects.
Once we said goodbye to Sven, we explored the area, then headed to The South African memorial at Delville Wood.
The Memorial remembers the heavy losses sustained by the South African Brigade of the 9th Scottish Division from 14 to 20 July 1916. Out of over 3,000 men only 29 officers and 731 other ranks returned.
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It was time to head back to Peronne and our last night. Which involved beer and food!
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Monday we headed back to Calais for our train home. Taking in Vimy Ridge on the way.
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We set the nav for cross country, headed for Calais, taking lunch on the way.
The weather in France was great, sunshine everyday.
A cracking weekend was had by all of us.