ww1 Battlefields via google maps

**Piledriver2311** · January 18, 2011, 07:58 PM

Type in Newfoundland memorial on google maps, if you zoom in, go off to the right aways to the end of a field, you can make out the vauge outlines of a former trench.

**RO Citizen** · January 19, 2011, 05:03 AM

There are alot of Newfoundland Memorials on google maps. And why should there be a trench in Canada?

**a tw player** · January 19, 2011, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by RO Citizen

There are alot of Newfoundland Memorials on google maps. And why should there be a trench in Canada?

Not sure if it's the same one...But I saw a newfoundland memorial in France/Belgium when I went on a field trip there, and there were preserved trenches in and around the area (from the Somme, up to the Flanders area)

**Piledriver2311** · January 19, 2011, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by RO Citizen

There are alot of Newfoundland Memorials on google maps. And why should there be a trench in Canada?

Im refering to the one in france.

**a tw player** · January 19, 2011, 04:53 PM

Do you mean the one at Vimy Ridge by any chance?

**Achea** · January 19, 2011, 04:56 PM

Newfoundland did not fight at Vimy. Maybe he is talking about the memorial at Beaumont Hamel?

**Piledriver2311** · January 19, 2011, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by Achea

Newfoundland did not fight at Vimy. Maybe he is talking about the momorial at Beaumont Hamel?

yeah, im sorry. I didn't clarify. was reading a book about the somme, and somme battles. looking at the area nowadays, you can see why so many people died there, its all flat. nowhere to hide.