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Old 21-03-14, 20:08
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Default Souvenirs anybody?

That's what the French refer to as the 'Iron Harvest'. Each farmer has a particular location where they deposit their finds for collection.
We were being shown around Bullecourt by a local resident and stopped to look at a little shrine in the corner of a field. Right alongside was a small cache of ordnance waiting for pickup, a couple of artillery projectiles and two mills bombs.
Claude, the local, had a practised eye for such things on the ground and walking between the crop rows easily found a couple of shrapnel balls for those who wanted them.
Another concern apart from explosive ordnance of course is gas shells or canisters.

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