... with Phillip Maddison. and he is only 21 now). The period covered is the few months either side of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. ...

... ONE GLORIOUS CRAWL ONE wild night of flying iron during the second battle of the Somme, when I was running away from the Bavarians as fast as my blistered feet would carry me, I suddenly saw a gleam of light coming from a doorway in Doingt and dived headlong ...

... painted on them. Lovod ono I remember the day he had that picture taken very well. It was in Amiens, just before the Battle of the Somme. We had a long week-end leave and the Sergeant, who, in spite of his chapel upbringing was not insensible to the tender ...