Off to The Somme


The happy faces in this unusual photo of the Royal Fusiliers marching to The Somme, in 1916, only underline the tragedy that followed. We can only imagine what horrors these men had to go through in the days and weeks ahead, and guess how many survived.


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by Stephen Luscombe