Somme Central: Ovillers to Fricourt
About this episode
This episode focuses on the events of 1st July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, highlighting the experiences of British troops.
On the morning of 1st July 1916, as whistles blew along miles of the Somme front, the men of the III Corps and XV Corps rose from their trenches and walked into the centre of one of the most catastrophic days in British military history. In this second special episode of Old Front Line for the Somme 110th Anniversary, we focus on the brutal heart of the Somme battlefield, that stretch of scarred chalk downland running from the village of Ovillers, down through the fortress of La Boisselle, to...
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