Michael and I spent today looking around some of the battlefield sites in the Somme. We went to the Sheffield Memorial Park which was one of the starting points of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916. Some of the trenches are still visible, and looking out across the fields, you could see where the German front line would have been. It is hard to imagine the horror of the battlefield on a peaceful autumn afternoon but the sheer numbers of military cemeteries give some idea of how many men were killed in the fighting in this area.
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