We stopped at the Thiepval museum and memorial. It’s a memorial that honours the over 72,000 missing British and South African men who died with no known graves. (WWI)
The museum 
Memorial
On to Ocean Villas, real name Auchonvillers but the British coined it Ocean Villas. Original WWI trenches have been excavated and restored.
Walking the trenches
We spent that evening in the city of Amiens (population approximately 137,000) and had a lovely evening wandering around.
Along the roadside, I love the poppies mixed in with other flowers 
Notre Dame (Amiens) Cathedral 
Inside the Cathedral 
Town Square 
River runs through the town, much like where I live 
Next stop….. we travel south through Normandy and to the City of Rouen and the City of Caen.
Trums Travels 
some of those trenches don’t look deep enough to protect a man walking.
What’s with the statue of the guy in the river?
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I know right? I feel like they would have been very exposed. I’m not sure about that statue, it was odd wasn’t it?
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I always love the European architecture, and the large field is so beautiful! The guy standing in the river is different.
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That was a statue and I found it a bit odd too!
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I kinda snickered… 🤭🤭
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Interesting you have a river running through your town – but likely no man standing in the river. You saw a lot of trenches in these battlefields in your travels!
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Yes it’s sad thinking about all those men living in those trenches for an indefinite amount of time
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Too much time in the trenches which were often muddy and wet and the soldiers would get “trench foot” from constantly wearing wet boots.
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