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The grave of a Medal of Honour winner at St James There are lots more here if anyone is interested http://www.militaria-archive.com/normandy/index.html

Bomb damaged Cathedral at Caen St James American cemetery at Britanny as above

Utah Utah Beach

Airborne Museum Leclerc memorial at Utah Utah Utah D-Day museum

Paratrooper Stained glass Inside St Mere Eglise The Airborne Museum (at st mere Eglise) Same place

Great thread, here are a few I took a couple of weeks ago. At the patton memorial in Avranches St Mere Eglise

Very nice pictures, welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing those.

This is a very interesting thread. Coincidentally there was an article the other day in the Irish Times on the subject of another Irishman in Canada (from the 1700's) which might interest some people here http://www.irishtime...4250637876.html

Those are very interesting, thanks for sharing those.

Got to say that is one of the best I have seen, looks like the photo was restored in the process. I had a go at one of these recently and suddenly realised the amount of work involved in it. Very nice work.

Fantastic collection and very educational for me ! Thanks for posting those.

This may be of interest to some here - several hundred glass plate portrait photos from the area of the Somme ; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/eu...ar-1688443.html Within a few months ? or days, most probably ? many of the soldiers were dead. The "somewhere in France" where these pictures were taken was a village called Warloy-Baillon in the d?partement of the Somme. Ten miles to the east was the front line from which the British Army launched the most murderous battle of that, or any, war, which lasted from 1 July to late November 1916 and killed an estimated 1,000,000 British empire, French and German soldiers. More than 90 years later, at least 400 glass photographic plates preserving the images were found in the loft of a barn at Warloy-Baillon and cast out as rubbish. In recent months, the plates, some in perfect condition, some badly damaged, have been lovingly assembled and their images printed, scanned and digitally restored by two Frenchmen. You can check out the photos here : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/eu...ml?action=Popup

These are very interesting pictures thanks for posting them.

The other guard seems a bit less formal than usual too. Thanks for sharing these pictures.