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| | Commemorations of The Somme |
 | | Serre was a significant target on that day because from their trenches in front of the village, the Germans had a high view over a wide area of No-Mans Land, including the part which would be crossed slightly to the South, in the attack on Beaumont-Hamel and Hawthorn Ridge. |
 | | In the event, the smoke failed, as the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, but even if the wind had been more helpful, the Germans in the area would not have been confused for long but, hopefully, for just long enough. |
 | | Smoking was prohibited, and each driver had to remain with his pair of horses, sitting astride one and driving the other by means of a short whip, the off-horse being trained to respond to light touches from it. |
| www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/somme.html (19956 words) |
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