For me the most poignant part of the Somme Commemoration from Thiepval was Charles Dance, standing under the great arch and reading Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon. Aftermath Have you forgotten yet?… For the world’s events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city…
Category: Thiepval Memorial
The Thiepval Memorial and Paul Emmanuel’s ‘Lost Men’
On the walls of the First World War Memorial on Thiepval ridge are the names of 72,194 men, most of whom were killed during the Battle of the Somme (1st July -18th November 1916). They have no known grave, either because their remains were never found (they were obliterated by shell-fire) or because by the…