Tideway Visits the Trenches
October 26th-29th
1999
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DAY 3

In the morning we visited the German military cemetery at Langemarck before travelling down to the Somme

DAY 3

July 25th, 1915. Afterwards Horrick and I both went into our dugout and slept peacefully until 10am in spite of a mine being exploded a mile away or more down the line. During the day very little firing goes on, but at 4pm the big guns have a little practice. On this particular day they were particularly busy. Eric Wreford Brown

The first place we visited on the Somme was Lochnagar Crater at La Boiselle
This crater was created when the British blew up a mine that they had dug under German trenches
The mine was blown on the morning of July 1st, the first day of the Battle of the Somme
The body of a Great War soldier was recently found at the edge of the crater

At Delville Wood we saw the only tree which survived the battles of the war
The tree is riddled with shrapnel
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