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

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.

18/09/2026

Stunning in the sunshine.

Remembering our good friend Tim Fischer, Australia's former deputy PM, who Vic had the privilege to show around the Hamel battlefield. Sadly Tim passed away in 2019.

17/09/2026

Samedi 19 Septembre 2026, journée du patrimoine.

Cathédrale d'Amiens depuis le beffroi

Photo credit. Yannick Barret

17/09/2026

It was a very enjoyable day this time last year with a small Australian group following in the footsteps of one of their ancestors, Captain Armadale Charles Anderson, 26th Battalion AIF, who was wounded at during the Battle of Bullecourt on the 3rd May 1917.

His granddaughter Robin Lee stood on the spot where he went over the top. And that wasn't all... He has just been positively identified (the soldier on the left) in one of the photographs from the Vignacourt collection to the family's absolute delight.

They headed off to Vignacourt in the late afternoon to meet the staff at the Musée Vignacourt 14 - 18 where they were filmed as part of the forthcoming 110th commemorations.

In Fond Remembrance.

In Fond Remembrance.

17/09/2026

16/09/2026

In Fond Remembrance.

15/09/2026

Sunrise on the Somme 💛