pferguson | July 1, 2019
La Boiselle this day so many years ago… This Day – 1 July 2019 When I can…I walk this ground, towards La Boiselle… We are in this place, peaceful now, but where the hearts of men once beat with adrenaline as they advanced. Their rhythms interrupted by the stuttering power of the seemingly endless machine […]
Category: Pipers of War |
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Tags: 1 July 1916, 102nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade, 20th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Scottish), 21st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Scottish), 22nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (3rd Tyneside Scottish), 23rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (4th Tyneside Scottish), First Day of the Somme, La Boiselle, Mash Valley, Sausage Valley, Tyneside Pipers
pferguson | July 3, 2016
IN THE GREAT ADVANCE Canadian Officer’s Graphic Letter. The following is a letter from a young Canadian serving with an English regiment – an officer in the first line on the first day of the big offensive: – July 1. I am writing this in a dug-out about 200 yards from German lines. […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 1 July 1916, Battleplanes, Canadian Officer in an English Regiment, First Day of the Somme, German Protest 1898, Hague Convention 1899, Hawthorn Ridge, Lyddite Shells, Machine Guns, Propaganda
