James Lake's first collection

France, Nolette, First World War, Chinese Labourers, Edward Lutyens, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Gravestones, Somme, Noyelles sur Mer,

This CCWGC World War I cemetery, designed by Sir Edward Lutyens, is in countryside on the edge of the village of Nolette, close to Noyelles sur Mer. Over 800 Chinese nationals are buried here. Recruited by the British as labourers and hospital aides around 1917 as part of the war effort they mostly died of disease.

France, Cliffs, Normandy, Saint Valery-en-Caux, Shoreline

Towering cliffs at St Valery-en-Caux, a Normandy fishing village/resort, 20 miles from Dieppe