ANZAC Day 2020

This is not the ANZAC Day we planned but here at the Silent Picket in Martinpuich the courage and sacrifice of the ANZACs are not forgotten. ‘At every cost,’ they said, ‘it must be done.’ They told us in the early afternoon. We sit and wait the coming of the Read more…

Reconstruction

When we first came here local people told us how their grandparents, returning after the Great War, dug out and roofed the cellars of their old houses, all the time hoping to find some past treasure unbroken. The government wanted to make this area a “Zone Rouge”, forbidding reconstruction, but Read more…