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On the Somme Again - Part 3

From Rely to the A1. An accident on the other side and a 7 mile queue. Glad I wasn't in that. Or going back that way. 

I came off the A1 and TomTom took me through Bapaume. A bit of a roundabout route to Bazentin as I forgot to set no unpaved roads in the routing settings. I had to ignore two roads that looked like dirt tracks.

From Bazentin the KSLI would have crossed Caterpillar Valley on the advance to attack the wood. It's all so benign now. 

The view from Caterpillar Valley

The wood still there or at least regrown since 1916.

In this cemetery is the original grave of New Zealand's Unknown Warrior.  I took a picture and then googled for more information. 

Unknown Warrior headstone


Caterpillar Valley Cemetery

Now off to Corbie. 

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