These pictures were of my Great Grand Father, a proud soldier of the British Army.
The first picture is of him on leave in 1918. He was so excited to be back home to see his daughter (my grandmother, who is in her 90's and still alive told us the story). He wanted a pix of her and his wife, so they had this photo taken.
He was killed in action not long after the pix was made, on Sept 30 1918, and buried in one of the many small cemetaries dotting the "Fields of Flanders"
The place he fought in is near Ligny-Thilloy, Beaulencourt, Pas de Calais, France
This location was captured in March, 1917, It was lost the the Germans on the 24th-25th March, 1918, and recovered after severe fighting at the end of August. The cemetery was begun by the 53rd Field Ambulance early in September, 1918, and used during the latter part of the month and the early part of October by the 3rd, 4th and 43rd Casualty Clearing Stations. It adjoined a German cemetery of March-August, 1918, from which 200 German graves have been removed to larger cemeteries and seven British to Favreuil British Cemetery. There are now nearly 250, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. The cemetery covers an area of 673 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall.