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Monday, July 2, 2012

BATTLE OF SOMME 2012 COMMEMORATIONS

Five youngs of Athy arrived in Grandvilliers for the 1st July Battle of Somme commemorations.
They spent Sat. with the french families and on Sunday went early with Grandvilliers delegates and youngs, in order to be in time, at 7.28 in La Boiselle where is Lochanagar Crater from where the battle started.
They go to Thiepval to attend the official ceremony of commemortation. During this ceremony, they went upstairs at the Memorial to lay a wrath on behalf of our both twinning committtees.

After lunch in Albert, they visited the Historial in Peronne.

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