Soldiers had varying expectations as to what they might confront on the morning on 1 July 1916 in the Somme Battle. One soldier recalled: ‘As we staggered up to the trenches we passed our divisional commander with some of his staff. ‘His words of cheer to us were, "Good luck, men. There is not a German left in their trenches, our guns have blown them all to Hell”.’ Another soldier recalled upon ‘going over the top’: 'Suddenly, for a few seconds, all seemed silent, the barrage had quietened down.
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A Family Shattered: The Day the Seabrooks’ World Collapsed in Flanders The Menin Road Battle on 20 September 1917 would prove devastating for the Seabrook family of Sydney. The Seabrook brothers – George, Theo and William – were with the Australian 17th Battalion when it attacked the German positions in front of the village of Westhoek. Advancing almost a mile, the battalion’s attack was considered a success. Yet before the day was over the three brothers were dead. Their mother, a heartbroken F
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Somme veterans remember: ‘the sun was glistening on the bayonets’ On the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in 1966, 500 British veterans returned to the Somme. They recalled the attack on 1 July, advancing forward in the morning sunshine. 🪖 If this history matters to you — like, share, follow or subscribe @ScottBennettWriter for more real stories from the Great War. Because the past lives on when we choose to remember it. #scottbennettwriter #somme | Scott Bennett
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Broken Faces In the aftermath of the Great War, France counted more than three million wounded. Among them were thousands of men whose injuries were so grotesque that they refused to be called ‘the facially wounded.’ They called themselves instead les gueules cassées — ‘the broken faces.’ These were men whose jaws were torn away, whose eyes and noses had vanished, whose faces had become ploughed fields of flesh and scar tissue. They returned home not as heroes, but as living reminders of what mo
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Controversial ‘Battle of the Somme’ footage: authentic or staged? On the 109th anniversary of the ‘Battle of the Somme’, we are again reminded of perhaps the most iconic footage of the Great War. A cameraman seemingly captures the exact moment British troops climb from their trenches on 1 July 1916 and advance through a hail of bullets toward the German trenches. On 10 July civilian filmmaker Geoffrey Malins returned to London with 8,000 feet of film. The completed documentary, which ran for 77
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