Tanks and Football !!

During this years historical research Somme Trip, we walked the area of the first time tanks were used in WW1, starting by Deville Wood then walking into Flers onto Gueudecourt into Lesbouefs, Ginchy and back to Deville Wood. More German ammunition and British .303 rounds than we've found in all our other trips put together, all now safely deactivated and housed in various collections. A couple of intersting memorials in Flers, one only erected last year to the footballers of Leyton Orient FC and one to the 41st Division.

The two unsavoury looking characters that you can see standing in the road, who look like they'd steal your packed lunch are Doug Lewis (he of the Hoody) and the one who looks like he is about to ski down mount Everest is the master field walker Dave Shaw.