Somme 100 Remembrance Events, Friday 1st July
Friday, July 1st marks 100 years since the commencement of the Battle of Somme – with 50,000 casualties, over 19,000 of them dead on the first day. 77 local men died in the battle which continued until November. We are remembering with two events; 7.25 am with bugler 5 minutes later to mark the moment…