Chateau Segard, Dickebusch,
JR Blackman's last camp before the Battle of the Menin Road
Source: A water colour by Gunner Sidney Robert Chilvers
1821 Info 11d photos for Caleb Crompton |
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Images showing the area around
Chateau Segard, Dickebusch, JR Blackman's last camp before the Battle of the Menin Road |
| Left: The remains of the Cafe
Belge, September 1917
Source: A water colour by Gunner Sidney Robert Chilvers |
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Left: ANZAC Camp 05 November 1917
Source: Australian War Memorial photo E1380 |
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| Right: ANZAC Camp 05 November 1917, showing
Chateau Segard in the tree line.
Source: Australian War Memorial photo E1380A |
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| Above: Chateau Segard, the HQ for many
formations which fought at Polygon Wood. It was severely damaged in the fighting of April 1918. Source: Cave, Nigel, 'Polygon Wood', Battleground Europe, Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 1999 |
| Right: Water colour of the Chateau Segard ruins by an
unidentified artist perhaps using the nom de plume SJ Jessett
Source: David Cohen Fine Arts |
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| Above: A map, of unknown date, locating
Chateau Segard and Cafe Belge - highlighted
Source: Cave, Nigel, 'Polygon Wood', Battleground Europe, Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 1999 |
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