WW1 The somme%01 Sunken Lane

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WW1 The somme, Sunken Lane
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Posted on November 12, 2025 at 10:46:44 by David Platt- Welfare & Liaison

Home Front History (Est. 2011) �
Rob Wilson � �
Today as we remember and as my tiny unworthy tribute I would like to tell you about this picture if I may.
Its actually a still from a film taken at approx 7.10am on 1st July 1916 in the Sunken Lane on the Somme. In the film ( still a novelty in 1916) the soldiers are seen laughing and smiling at the camera. In this tiny, innocuous, nondescript lane and in the field to the right of the pic waited approx 600 men of the Lancashire Fusiliers.
At 7.30 am the whistles blew, they stood up and went through the bushes on the left of the second photo ( the exact spot where they are sat in the original pic)and over the lip of the lane. Their objective was the ridge at the top of the fourth photo. Unfortunately the woods you see there were infested with German machine guns.
They were simply cut to pieces as they tried to leave the lane. None of them got more than a few metres, none of them reached even that green patch of grass you see in fourth pic.
By 8.15 the lane you see before you was full of dead, dying and wounded. Out of approx 600 men the Fusiliers lost around 200 killed and 300 wounded in 3 attempts to attack from the lane.
Our debt is ever lasting , our respect and gratitude eternal.
(Black and white photo copyright Imperial War Museum/ Colour photos my photos from 2000's almost one hundred years later)

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