Hawthorn Ridge & the Sunken Lane

So, from the Newfoundland Memorial to the Sunken Lane. This feature marked a brief pause in the advance of the Lancashire Fusiliers in July 1916, a location made all the more real by the photograph in the booklet of the Fusiliers in the very same lane... Faces staring out from the pages of history. From there, it was a short walk up to the massive crater that marks Hawthorn Ridge, the result of British miners and Engineers tunnelling for months under the German redoubt that was located there. One can only imagine the sound of blast created by over 40,000 lb of explosives.... Finally, we braved the sticky, clay-rich soils of the ridge to visit the poignant Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery. This small, isolated cemetery essentially marks the front line, one of several that do so; men buried pretty much where they were found. DGW
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