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In Search of the Past – A visit to the Somme – Part 3 by Penny Gerrard

Captain Walter Basil Haddon-Smith The Gerrards and the Hodsons had successfully tracked down the first of Richard’s family members and so onwards on the next stage of our journey – this time to find the Le Touret Monument to 13,400 soldiers whose families had no marked graves to visit.  On this would be carved the …

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In Search of the Past – A visit to the Somme by Penny Gerrard Part 2

2nd Lieutenant Robert Charles Hodson As I told you in the introduction to my story, we, the Gerrards and the Hodsons, had arrived safely in Lille and had prepared for our long awaited Somme expedition in May 2016.   Finally we were on our way on the first day of our exploration, and were off to find the …

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