57609: Mametz Wood and Happy Valley

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posted on 2024-05-12, 21:25 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Taken from some high ground above Mametz Wood showing the location of Mametz Wood and Happy Valley. Robert Graves was here with the 2nd Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers in July 1916. Graves went into Mametz Wood to bury friends and later to obtain a German Army greatcoat.

History

Identifier

5681.jpg | CXTPROPHOTOS - 67.jpg

Subject

Landscape | Somme

Creator

Lindsay, Kate

Date

10th July 2008

Date Created

10/07/2008

Spatial

Somme

Source

Photograph

Medium

Digital image

Type

Photograph

Contributor

Kate Lindsay

Rights

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford

Repository Name

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Repository Address

13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK

Publisher