Some commemorations of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme today. This is one of the more moving ones. The author found 2 relations’ names in his search of the registry: I found 352 names in my search.
Cemetery for soldiers killed in the Battle of the Somme. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty
I wrote a paper on this in my college days, and still remember reading over the statistics and other details of the period. It’s not for nothing that WWI is considered the beginning of the modern age, with mechanized warfare, poison gas, aerial combat and bombardment, U-boats, all products of industrialization.