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Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Auchonvillers Trenches. February 2014

Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Auchonvillers Trenches. February 2014
View of the well preserved WW1 cellar and trenches owned by Avril Williams at her 'Ocean Villas' ( as re named by the British soldiers based here in WW1 ) Tea Rooms and Guest House at Auchonvillers, Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme Battlefield. The Trenches, discovered in the 1990's. lead to an underground basement shelter used as a front line medical station.
Seen here: Avril Williams shines a light on the memorial to 16 year old James Crozier who was shot at dawn on the 27th of February 1916 for desertion. Young James from Belfast signed up into the British Army in 1914 and served on the western front from October 1915. He was found behind the lines wandering the countryside between Beaumont Hamel and Serre arrested, tried and executed. The doctor in the Royal Army Mediacal Corps pronounced James fit and able, even though he was suffering from shell shock. James was pardoned in 2008. He is buried in Sucrerie CWGC Cemetery on the Somme.
The Memorial in the cellar of 'Ocean Villers' was carved by a stretcher bear in 1916.

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1914 - 2014 The 100th Anniversary of the start of WW1
Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Auchonvillers Trenches. February 2014<br /> View of the well preserved WW1 cellar and trenches owned by Avril Williams at her 'Ocean Villas' ( as re named by the British soldiers based here in WW1 ) Tea Rooms and Guest House at Auchonvillers, Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme Battlefield. The Trenches, discovered in the 1990's. lead to an underground basement shelter used as a front line medical station.<br /> Seen here: Avril Williams shines a light on the memorial to 16 year old James Crozier who was shot at dawn on the 27th of February 1916 for desertion. Young James from Belfast signed up into the British Army in 1914 and served on the western front from October 1915. He was found behind the lines wandering the countryside between Beaumont Hamel and Serre arrested, tried and executed. The doctor in the Royal Army Mediacal Corps pronounced James fit and able, even though he was suffering from shell shock. James was pardoned in 2008. He is buried in Sucrerie CWGC Cemetery on the Somme. <br /> The Memorial in the cellar of 'Ocean Villers' was carved by a stretcher bear in 1916.
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