A specific poppy memorial
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A specific poppy memorial
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 2 Nov 2018
This large poppy appears to commemorate an individual soldier of the Great War. Several telegraph poles along the main road have such dedications. The name appears to be Gilbert Russel Walker, 1881-1916, 21st Field Company, South Midlands Royal. The Division left Salisbury Plain training camps for the attack on Fromelles, near the Somme - which claimed many lives in a terrible encounter, 19th July, 1916. The number 172 refers to the actual telegraph pole.
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Image Location
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51.431771
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-2.652875