I am starting to add some pages with photos from some of the battlefield sites that I have visited on various stays in the U.S. 

For those who are interested I do have two other military history sites. One covers the battalions that I my Grandfather served in during the First World War. He was in the 2nd, 6th & 10th battalions of the York and Lancaster Regiment in the British Army.  He did service in Egypt, Gallipoli and France and was captured by the Germans on the first day of the Kaiser’s Offensive, 21st March 1918. My other site covers the German airborne invasion of the Greek island of Crete in May 1941.  Through working on these sites I became interested in joining guided tours of some of the WW1 and WW2 battlefields in Europe, usually guided by Professor Richard Holmes.  Photos from those trips are included on the other two sites; D-Day Beaches, Arnhem, The Somme and Verdun.

The Ossuary at Douaumont, Verdun.  There are the bones of some 140,000 French and German soldiers here.

One of the many WW1 cemeteries marking where soldiers fell in the First World War.  This is one of many in the area around Ypres.

This photo shows German paratroops loading one of the Ju52 transport aircraft before the invasion of Crete.

Many of the defences built by the Germans against the Allied invasion of Europe are still in place around the D-Day Beaches. This is one of the guns of the Longues_battery.

The bridge at Arnhem, “A Bridge Too Far”.  Lt.-Col. John Frost’s 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment held the left hand end of the bridge for some days but were not relieved and had to surrender to the Germans before 30 Corps arrived from Nijmegen.