Lost Mines of the Somme

Dave is Branch Secretary at Northumberland WFA. He has been visiting battlefields and studying the First World War for over thirty years. He is in his final year of an MA course at the University of Wolverhampton.  This talk looks beyond Hawthorn Ridge and Lochnagar and explores the wider importance of mining in the BEF plans during the Somme Battle, for the 1st July and beyond - and its impact on events.