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Battle of the Somme 1916

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

On July 1, 1916 at 7:30 A.M. the Allies launched the largest offensive of the war. What would soon be the bloodiest and most tragic single day in British Military history. July 1, 1916 the opening day of Somme, By 12:30 P.M. over 50,000 of Britain's soldiers were dead or wounded

LEST WE FORGET...... WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Let's not forget the 500,000 Germans, nor the 200,000 French as well as the 420,000 deaths and casualties.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lucky enough to have experienced visiting the Somme.

Changed me as a person and taught me what true respect really is.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have visited the battlefields of Flanders (born and raised in Belgium) and the Somme a few times and it's always a sobering, somber, yet enlightening experience.

Lest we Forget.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You have to remember that those gallant gentleman that fought during the first and second world war,were the ones who saved us from being under a Germany dictatorship

Gentlemen until my dying day I will always respect that you went out of your way to make sure that England will always remain a Democracy.Gentlemen I salute you,long may you remain in peoples mind.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

My Grandfatther fought at the Somme he was an artillery man in the black watch .wounded in the arm he was invalided home to have pioneering ligament replacement surgery allowing him to continue to serve .he survived the war to end all wars married my grandmother and had three sons including my dad saddly my grandad died when I was aged eleven so I never got to talk with him about his experiences to my grandad John and all who served through all conflicts I salute you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Lucky enough to have experienced visiting the Somme.

Changed me as a person and taught me what true respect really is. "

This!!!

When you pick up a spent round from the floor and wonder what it's story is has it been a miss shot had it injured someone. Then you look up and realise your standing in a place where over a million brave lives were lost.

The only place more harrowing is if you visit auschwitz the concentration camp. That place truely is strange even the birds do not fly over it.

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

LEST WE FORGET...... WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM!!

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over a year ago


" LEST WE FORGET...... WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM!!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" LEST WE FORGET...... WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM!! "

indeed, and all "brothers in arms"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" LEST WE FORGET...... WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM!!

indeed, and all "brothers in arms""

Bound by blood. Brothers forever.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

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