[U S Army EOD]

When I was in Scotland I was in a small town that had a huge war memorial and very long list of names. I asked about it and was told the ratio of young men to women at the end of WWI was 15 women to 1 man in that town.

During the Battle of the Somme on the 1st July 1916 the British literally lined up 27 divisions and charged 16 German divisions. By that evening over 58,000 British soldiers lay dead or wounded on that small battlefield. About 1 of 3 were dead. The battle lasted into the winter of that year. The British lost 420,000 men, the French lost 200,000 men and the Germans lost about 500,000 men. The British penetration at its furtherest point was 12km.

Pray we never see anything like that.

[mware]

I saw an earlier thread regarding this Tommy. He was a witness to the Christmas Truce of 1914.