Published on Nov, 2024
As a guided trip around the Albert Salient of the Somme, Alison, our guide. impressed us with her great, in-depth knowledge of not only the sites visited, but also the strategic rational of the battles waged, the reasons why such scale of loss occurred, emphasising the issues of the planning timescales involved, the organisation and logistical challenges of controlling thousands of troops, spread over such a wide operational front with numerous separate divisions and regimental companies all moving forward to detailed synchronised, inter-dependent, individual targets and times, that once put into motion we're virtually impossible to stop.
We return to the UK with a much better understanding of why?
Alison takes a real pride in passing on her knowledge and discussing our thoughts 100+ years on.