They lay very quiet, visible on the left, from the Butte de Warlencourt, that old high mound in the somme battlefields which was once the burial-place of a prehistoric man and is now the tomb of young soldiers in the Durham Light Infantry who fought and died there.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The Germans had fired their last shot in the battles of the somme.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
A few weeks ago I went a journey to the new lines we had taken over from the French south of the somme.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs