E Mail received today re our trip. Sean
Back to the Package I sent today.
I know you have little time when in Gavrelle but I have sent info on 3 cemeteries. These cemeteries are important as regards your father.
In the Gavrelle guide I have a walk around Gavrelle, however, if you walk from the Mayor's House to Naval Trench Cemetery, this
would be the route your father went back and forth. Being a strecher bearer they would work from dugout aid posts and dressing stations,
those who died were buried outside the dugout and the wounded being taken back to HQ west of Bailleul (via Point-du-Jour).
So try to visit (by road) Point-du-Jour and Bailleul Road East Cemetery.
On page 166 I mention about stretcher bearer Frank Durham taking a killed comrade back to be buried, and attending a service by a padre.
I have listed the 11 14/Woresters buried in this cemetery. Worth rre-eading the write up on this cemetery, also my write-up on St.Laurent-Blangy German Cemetery
esp. the bit about the dugouts in the side of the railway cuttings, Bois de la Maision see trench map on page 175.
TREVOR
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