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When the Somme ran red
Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1870–), 1918
Named on the page for Battle of the Somme.
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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.
1 July – 18 November 1916
Battle of the Somme
WHEN THE SOMME RAN RED
Being a very egotistical account of my own 'personal experiences and observations from the early days of the war in Belgium to the Great Battle of the Somme in July, 1916
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Part of Actual Map Used During the Battle of the Somme . 176
PREPARING FOR GREAT OFFENSIVE 155
scape in this No Man’s Land made one of the many sharp contrasts of this strange scene. It had been abandoned by the farmers for nearly two years and the ground instead of bearing rich crops of grain was covered with a mass of scarlet poppies, growing in riotous profusion as far as the eye could see, a strange wild garden, its col¬ our red as the blood that was soon to be shed so lavishly along this great battlefield of the Somme.
CHAPTER X
Battle of the Somme — The Great Day
Public domain. Text from Internet Archive.