I'm posting this here because my web search for Secauspion Road turned up zero web pages - a most unusual event these days! Secauspion Road was a plank road constructed across the shell-wrecked swampland of the Ypres Salient during the Third Battle of Ypres (1917). I believe the name is a composite, derived from SECond AUStralian PIONeers. Does anyone have any confirmation, or any alternative ideas?
This was one of the fascinating trench and topographical names I discovered while scouring trench maps, divisional and regimental histories, war diaries and other sources, for my book Rats Alley - Trench Names of the Western Front (2006).
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- peter chasseaud
- I work in many media: oil painting, lithography, etching, drawing, photography, film, installations, artists books. Generally figurative and landscape, and combining images with text - I write poetic (free-verse) texts for my artists books. The images and texts have equal weight. My Kings Cross (2004), Thames - The London River (2005) and Afghanistan - A Journey (2007) books are concerned with topography, history, human culture (especially art and literature), politics, and my own memory. I am concerned with the way in which changes in technology and politics have an impact on human society, on a micro-level as in Kings Cross and Thames, or on a more macro-level as in Afghanistan. In 2007-8 I showed my artists books in London, Leeds, Bristol, Marseilles and Oxford. I am working on an art project (painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, film, willow sculpture) on willow trees in the Ypres Salient in Belgium. Also new artist's books inspired by Isaac Rosenberg's poems, and by the Euston Arch and the Euston - Camden - Chalk Farm area, and in 2009 continuing work on the East London and Borough Market areas.
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