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I have traveled the WW1 & WW2 battlefields every year since 1986 in my campers, so much to see and visit, especially the magnificent Memorials to ALL killed during both Wars.
If you decide to do this you must buy the book....Before Endeavours Fade...by Rose E.B. Coombs...wonderful images, most of the history of the places of battle and superb instructions how to travel to each site, cemetery using her maps & road numbers

The cemeteries about 400 + scattered all over France & Belgium...are a place of great sadness but a place of such beauty...With grateful Thanks to the War Graves Commission for their upkeep.
It is amazing to be in such places that have thousands and tens of thousands of those who have "Fallen Asleep" and now lie under the blue skies....where they are buried. 

Tens & Thousands of crosses stand on Foreign soil and the names of those aged from as young as 17 years old and older..and the tens and of thousands...who have ...No Known Grave...Like Theipval...Those who were just blown apart, drowned in water filled craters, were shot and left suffer excrutiating pain for days alone and to die..then another bombardment that then blew these young "boys" bodies into oblivion..We Remember Them ALL...!!!

I have met some French Resistance Leaders, George Millar (SOE) Pearl Witherington - Cornioly (SOE) twice at her retirement home in Chateauvieux...some years ago, she was a wonderful woman and showed me the newspaper images, when she was presented by Queen Elizabeth 1, her "wings" hanging in a frame on her wall...but awarded to Pearl over 60 years later...an insult by the Government...to such a Brave SOE Agent!
I have many stories to write especially about the Belgium "Comete Line" as I have had the greatest please to meet three times at her house near Avignon, France...Michou , code named "Lily". Who alone traveled with her "Parcel" (of two or three) of shot down British, Canadian, American aircrew, all the way from the "Safe Houses" in Belgium, across the border into France...then the long journey frought with fear and anxiety to all the other "Safe Houses" along the route, sometimes walking hundreds of miles, sometimes by bike, or train..ever anxious if they would be stopped by the Gestapo on trains or German patrols along the road....eventually reaching St Jean de Luz, and her Auntie "Tante Go" in Anglelet. She then met her Spanish guide Florentino, who escorted them over the Pyrenees, she rescued over 300 air crew, just her alone and a Spanish guide...in the snow, rain, cold, summer heat, and the armed guards - Spanish & German constantly on the look-out for escapees with a "Shoot on Sight" policy, then across the river Biddossa, she "Lily" got them all into Spain and Freedom...!!!..... but that's another story for later.