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From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] MOQUET FARM AND LONGUEVAL CEMETERY
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:04:42 -0000
References: <002c01c524b1$bd1b2010$e0deb818@W13497.ecpm.com>


Shirley - Mouquet Farm ("Mucky Farm" or "Moo Cow Farm" to the troops) - new
Australian plaque with farm in background >
http://members.iinet.net.au/~abermail/mouquet.html
It's a bit academic, but the farm you see now is not built on the exact site
of the pre-WW1 farm - that was on the other side of the farm access lane, so
maybe 100 yards left of the farm in the photo. Apparently the place was so
riddled with German dug-outs etc that the ground was highly unstable, and it
was easier and safer to rebuild on new foundations.

At the moment Mucky Farm has a resident dog which, even by the standards of
the "average" French farm dog,
is "intimidating". There is a theory that the new(ish) explanatory plaque is
positioned so far from the farm so as to give visitors from OZ time to flee
for the safety of their coach should the dog decide it is hungry !
regards
--
Tom Tulloch-Marshall
Great War Military Research
Website > http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/index.html


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