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All the photos are courtesy of Neil Hampson who took them in early Spring 2003.
All the photos are numbered on the maps on the page above. Also, I have added a detailed map at the bottom of the page showing the area around Noreuil and the area where photos - 10 were taken.
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5. Hobart Avenue.
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6. Pontefract Trench. This can be seen north of the figure ‘10’ on the map below. It goes east-west across a sunken road
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7. Looking west towards Noreuil from the bottom end of Dewsbury Trench.
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8. Leeds Reserve trench
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9. Hobart Avenue from Halifax trench.
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10. The point where the narrow guage railway crossed the road from Noreuil.
It can be seen as point 10 on Neil’s map, and on the detailed map below it is the point a little left of the red crayon where the two cross.
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On the map above York Support trench is just in the bottom right corner. My grandfather’s battalion were in this at one point on 21st March.
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