Alfred Stafford WW1 - Battlefield Tour - 50th Northumbrian Division
In their tour visiting battlefield and memorials Alfred and his colleagues visited the impressive Memorial to the 50th Northumbrian Divisionnot far from Ypres in the hamlet of Wieltje, Belgium.
1929 50th Division Northumbrian Memorial
The memorial is a plain white pillar, standing beside a farm on a windswept hillside.
50th Northumbrian Division Memorial today
An addition was made to the memorial to include the Divisions role in the Second World War.
1929 Postcard from France to Alfred's daughter Eleanor aged 17
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