Les Alouettes B&B, self catering accommodation and WW1 battlefield Tours

Name: Les Alouettes B&B, self catering accommodation and WW1 battlefield Tours
Address: 12 Rue du Mantier, Hardecourt-aux-Bois, 80360, FR
Telephone: +33671784074

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Hardecourt-aux-Bois
Les Alouettes B&B, self catering accommodation and WW1 battlefield Tours

We offer ensuite B&B and self-catering accommodation in the heart of the Somme battlefields and tours

27/09/2026

I was visiting Fromelles a few days ago with a group and we came across this poignant tribute on Private Fred Rawlings grave. His last letter home just before that fateful day on the 19th July 1916. Beautifully written.

In Fond Remembrance.

26/09/2026

Just a few days ago we experienced a serendipity moment. One of the most emotional experiences ever as a guide.

Geoff & his lovely wife Janette from Victoria were following in the footsteps of Geoff's paternal Grandfather, Lieutenant Vincent Laurence Molloy of the 13th Field Company Engineers.

I had printed off all the men who hadn't survived from his unit so that during our three days together we could visit some of his comrades. I had planned to include two Sapper's who are buried in Messines. I realised that they had no Red Cross record plus time was running away so I decided instead to visit another Sapper who is buried closer to the area we were visiting in the afternoon along the Menin Road in Ypres.

Geoff and Jeannette were searching for Sapper Herbert Cyril Haworth in Birr Cross Roads cemetery whilst I searched for a possible Red Cross record giving details of his death. I wasn't hopeful as the other two Sapper's had no record. On reaching the grave I saw that there was indeed a record for Herbert.

I could not believe what I was reading but we had found his Grandfather's Batman..... We were all in tears. The chances of finding someone who knew his Grandfather well and served with him until his death in 1917 was just remarkable. Herbert's comrades made him a beautiful wooden cross and he is buried slightly away from the other men buried in the cemetery.

A very special moment which I will never forget.

Rest in peace Bertie.

In Fond Remembrance.

24/09/2026

A poignant moment today enroute to Fromelles and Flanders. We stopped at the Australian Memorial in Bapaume which commemorates those men killed by the b***y trap left by the retreating Germans in the Town Hall which caused a massive explosion at almost midnight on the 25th March 1917.

The Australian Second Division liberating Bapaume had set up their headquarters in the town hall not knowing of the delayed action fuse.

Geoff's Grandfather, Lieutenant Vincent Laurence Molloy, was in a dugout close to the town hall. He is mentioned in the 13th Field Engineers War Diary along with two other officers. It took 1.5 hours to recover the three commission officers alive.

In Fond Remembrance.

24/09/2026

Sunrise on the Somme ✨️

23/09/2026

Just a lovely epitaph. So many sons..

In Fond Remembrance.

22/09/2026

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission always maintain the cemeteries lovingly and immaculately and this cemetery was going under an inspection by a local pusscat.

In Fond Remembrance.

21/09/2026

A lovely school group to be guiding today from Gippsland, Victoria in Australia 🇦🇺. We researched some of the men who came from here but sadly who still remain on the Somme. A few will be visited this afternoon.

In Fond Remembrance.

21/09/2026

These images are from a few years ago.

It was very striking seeing the red colour of their jackets against the beautiful Caribou worn from a school from Preston in the UK.

In Fond Remembrance.

20/09/2026

Airman Captain Sidney Edwin Cowan MC and two bars, 29th Squadron RFC, aged 19 years old and also commemorating his brother who is still missing Captain Philip Chalmers Cowan aged 22 and is commemorated in Arras on the Flying Service Memorial.

Sidney shot down 7 enemy aircraft and was one of Ireland's early ace's in the war. He died when in combat when he collided with a British plane.

Their family came from Castlemount, Castleknock, Co. Dublin.

In Fond Remembrance.

19/09/2026

" I'm alright mother
Cheerio "

In Fond Remembrance.

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12 Rue Du Mantier
Hardecourt-aux-Bois
80360

Téléphone

+33671784074

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