Still more cemeteries

On to Longueval to visit a New Zealand cemetery. As we have some Kiwis in our group, another small ceremony - our guide recited 'In Flanders Fields'.
A stop to hear about the men who tunnelled, sometimes 1000 metres, to get under enemy trenches and set explosives.
Last stop was Thiepval, a British cemetery. There are the names of 72,000 men, whose bodies were never found, on the walls here...

The battle of the Somme lasted 141 days. Including Germans, there were well over one million casualties, including 57,000 on the first day, with over 19,000 killed. In total there were over 300,000 killed...Read more