Working in close consultation with our dedicated ‘Clerk of Works’, Vinny Felstead and his team, we will be considering refurbishing the badly worn area between the cross and the Visitors’... read more →
We are pleased to say the relationship is going from strength to strength, thanks in great part to the efforts of dear Friends who live locally, notably Alison and Jon... read more →
It is always very special to be on the battlefields for Armistice Day and 2017 was no exception. To be in a place of such poignancy and atmosphere always adds... read more →
Hopefully by now many Friends will have seen the 20 panels of the Labyrinth. We never quite knew how visitors would react to them, whether they would read the odd... read more →
As many will know, one of our longest serving and best-loved Standard Bearers, Joe Hubble sadly died a short while back. With his impressive handlebar moustache, Black Watch beret and... read more →
Meet Trooper Walter Bell. He’s remembered with a plaque on the Crater walkway and is buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery near Albert. He was 20 when he was killed, on... read more →
By Stephen Kerr For most visitors, the Somme is a photographer’s dream. Sites like Lochnagar Crater, the cemeteries, memorials and woods, and the rolling landscape, are irresistibly photogenic. Stephen Kerr... read more →
Every now and again, words written by men who survived the slaughter on the battlefields a century ago echo through the years. Relationships made in appalling conditions can cascade through... read more →
By Martin Middlebrook The name of Martin Middlebrook is inseparable from the name of the Somme. Nobody visiting the battlefield will be unaware of his ground-breaking work, The First Day... read more →
By Peter Vass For General Haig, the Battle of the Somme was supposed to be the solution to the stalemate on the western Front not, as it turned out to... read more →
