He died of wounds at 8 Casualty Clearing Station, Bailleul and is buried in the extension to the Communal Cemetery. The family was told that he was shot in the shoulder, with the bullet penetrating his chest, while working underground near Ploegsteert Wood.
Cpl Alexander Angus

Hi John. Very well thanks. Will get back to you this evening. Cheers

I had a feline someone might make an awful pun…

It’s bottocino stone. Sometimes described as a marble, but it’s not a true marble.
It’s being used because it’s more durable and it’s tighter grain doesn’t support moss and lichen growth as well as limestone. It’s easier to clean too.

Appalling.
The women I know who do this invariably put many of the male guides to shame with their prep and knowledge.
I honestly thought we were more supportive of each other than this suggests we are.

Happy to oblige!
Still waiting for my guests though…
2hrs delay by the time they get here

It’s exactly in the place as described, Simon. Thank you.

I think it might be, David, although there is also some suspicion that there was a mine crater here too. I believe @sommecourt.bsky.social has suggested this may be the case. The shape of the subsidence suggests it follows a tunnel, but we’ll know more once work starts to open the ground.

Trench maps of the late war highlight that cellars have been used. This hole may well be the collapse of tunnels linking cellars in different buildings.
Whatever it is, it looks like there’s an underground network which didn’t like being disturbed by the water company.

More photos of the hole in Beaulencourt.

I’m fully in favour of Marshall law.