"Somme," said a German veteran afterwards. "The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word."
The horror began #OTD 1916 with 20,000 British fatalities - the single worst day in the long story of our Armed Forces.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-battle-of-the-somme-100-years-on

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