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Post by wild on Nov 21, 2011 10:04:19 GMT -6
Ian The Grimsby chums,that says it all.As DC was saying can you imagine the peer pressure on all able bodied Grimsby males not to mention these Biddies who went around handing out white feathers to men not in uniform. There was also the tragedy of the Newfoundland battalion on the first day of the Somme They were in the reserve trenches and were ordered forward to the frontline trenches from which they would begin the attack.Being raw green they rose up out of the rear trenches and tried to make their way forward not realising that the only way forward was through the communication trenches.90% Casualties before they reached their assigned start position.
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