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13th Nov 1916: Last significant phase of the Battle of the
#Somme as renewal of offensive sees British finally capture Beaumont Hamel. Today I remember all the brave men and women on the front line and the home front.
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Not anticipating lots of RTs, likes or 'traction' for this; but in your busy day today, would you please bring to mind 15812 Pte HW 'Billy' Disbrey of 11th Cambs Suffolks, a farm boy from Cambridgeshire, missing in action on the
#Somme since 1st July 1916. Bugles still calling... pic.twitter.com/5CvEP85aPW
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Officers & Members of Kent Somme Society laying wreaths in Rochester this morning. Lest We Forget.
#LestWeForget
#somme#armisticedaypic.twitter.com/8VKXjuOeGI
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Men of RIR110 in a trench that ran under the bridge across the dry bed of Willow Stream between Mametz and Fricourt.
#Somme#WW1pic.twitter.com/9QSIlDGCF5
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1915 Clapton Orient joined the Footballers’ Battalion. 41 players officials & supporters signed up, the 1st English team to join in numbers. 3 players died during the Battle of the
#Somme In 2011@leytonorientfc supporters erected a memorial near the Somme#RemembranceDaypic.twitter.com/FEaQ9KX4r5
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New purchases today from
@ChavasseFarm. Lovely bit of bedtime reading@zero_hour_z_day. This will take the pain away from having to leave the#Somme on Sunday with@HawthornRidgeCA.pic.twitter.com/NxFHMZMDD5
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Sons and Fathers. Fricourt German Cemetery on
#RemembranceDay2021 #Somme#FirstWorldWar#WW1pic.twitter.com/LUhTLjyHNb
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Today, down at The Nab on the
#Somme as the day was drawing to a close.@Ianlyall9#FirstWorldWar#WW1pic.twitter.com/b22i1Ts4Wx
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Missing at the Ancre 105 years ago today. CH/19403 Pte. Jack Clegg, 1st Royal Marine Battalion, Royal Naval Division. Native of Dodworth,
#Barnsley. His name is on the@CWGC Thiepval Memorial and his story is told in the privately published book "If you're alive, speak."#Somme pic.twitter.com/zup6wden8s
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Another page from my
#ww1#AIF grandads diary - he’d already been gassed x1 recuperated in England, met wife to be & heading to#Somme aged 20. Diary damaged so don’t know what letter was about#ebblinghem#anzacpic.twitter.com/N6aT7zUnD0
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I feel privileged to be here on the
#Somme and able to pay my respects to the fallen on this day of#Remembrance. We will remember them.#ArmisticeDaypic.twitter.com/sHC2Acg4gN
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Ist day of
#Somme 40000 tonnes of he explosives shells fired. Which did absolutely nothing to stop the slaughter of the best British and French troops Casualties and lossesBritish: 57,470 (19,240 killed) French: 1,5906 Lest we forget. pic.twitter.com/9xNDxSXifz -
Owen Hobbs, a teacher
@KESSouthampton, killed#onthisday in the final days of the#Somme campaign 1916. Buried@CWGC Ancre Valley Cemetery.@KESHistory1553#LestWeForget #Southamptonpic.twitter.com/VNmzHNTiTq
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Foggy afternoon at Bronfay Farm Cemetery near Bray sur Somme. Feels like a melancholy blanket sitting over this land.
#somme#cwgc#picardiepic.twitter.com/cNibPIcMiP
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@RoyalNavy@NatMuseumRN@63rdRNDivision http://www.royalnavaldivision.info#OTD 1916 Over 800 men of the#RoyalNavalDivision fell on the opening day of the Battle of the Ancre. In capturing the village of Beaucourt the RND’s reputation was established.#WW1#Somme pic.twitter.com/zLUxKXPC4u
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Great Day today re-connecting with the Somme Battlefields. It’s been far too long…..
#Somme#backtothebattlefieldspic.twitter.com/FCxzEW9Ckf
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The Church in Saint-Pierre-Divion, looking suitably sombre in an autumnal array; the Ulster Tower viewed from the Churchyard, and the "Long, long trail a-winding....".
#Somme 2011 pic.twitter.com/KZq4XqefBr
105 years ago this week during the Battle of the 
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