INTO THE BLOODBATH Terrifyingly vivid. Deeply humane. In tribute to the thousands of British troops slaughtered in the Battle of the Somme, which began 90 years ago, we reprint a classic soldier's memoir that captures the sheer horror of trench warfare

From: Daily Mail | Date: July 3, 2006| Author: SIDNEY ROGERSON | Copyright information

SATURDAY was the 90th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, a conflict that has come to symbolise the terrible savagery of World War I.

Twenty thousand British troops perished on the first day of fighting; by the end of the offensive, a total of over a million lives had been lost.

What follows is an extract from a classic memoir of the battle, originally published in 1933. Written by Sidney Rogerson, a 22-year- old officer in the West Yorkshire Regiment, it offer...

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