Monday, September 05, 2016

How Olympic hammer thrower chosen to hurl grenades at the Germans died on first day of the Somme

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/03/how-olympic-hammer-thrower-chosen-to-hurl-grenades-at-the-german/

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Keith Conning:  My father fought in the Somme during the first world war.
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Battle of the Somme - Wikipedia, the free...

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The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought ...

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