Thursday 18 March 2010

Riqueval Bridge

  
By Dermot Gallagher
Member of the
Guild of Battlefield Guides



Photograph taken last weekend of Riqueval Bridge spanning the St. Quentin Canal north of Bellinglise, which was captured intact on the 29th September 1918 by Captain A.H.Charlton and nine of his men from the 1/6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regt.