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The photographs that follow are a selection from HW's own album of those that he and Gipsy took on their honeymoon visit to the Western Front in 1925. Most have HW's captions.
An unidentified mine crater – almost certainly Lochnagar crater, on the Somme, detonated on 1 July 1916:
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Postcards – three postcards sent by Henry and Gipsy while on their honeymoon tour of the battlefields.
From Gipsy to her brother Frank, posted 31 May 1925:
From HW to his father – for some reason sent to his place of work and forwarded on – posted on 1 June 1925:
From HW to his mother, posted 1 June 1925:
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The area around Ypres (from Ypres in War and Peace – with modern spellings of place names):
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The Ypres Salient: maps of the area north-east of Ypres and the area around Ploegsteert and Messines, dated 1924 (scale 1:40,000, but resized for this web page), that HW used on his 1925 visit:
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A sketch of Ploegsteert Wood from HW's notebook, with his explanatory note:
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A map of Ploegsteert Wood taken from a brochure produced by the London Rifle Brigade: 'Ploegsteert 1927 - The unveiling of the Commemorative Tablet in the London Rifle Brigade Cemetery at Ploegsteert on Sunday June 19, 1927':
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This map was used by HW on his 1927 visit, marked up with the places and dates where he was in 1917 and visited ten years later:
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