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6/15/2025, 5:45:39 AM
>We took over the sector behind the village of Serre on 5 July from the 94th Brigade and at night time, when I looked out, the flares were all going up, and between the lines, in No Man’s Land, there were twinkling lights everywhere. I thought, twinkling lights, what could it be? I found out afterwards the Pals Battalions of 31st Division had arranged that every man would carry a triangular piece of tin on the back of his pack so that when he was crawling forward, attacking, our own airmen looking down could see the depth of the advance. All those twinkling lights were literally hundreds of men who had been killed on that morning, before breakfast, awful slaughter. You can understand what a man felt like to see that. I just thanked God we hadn’t been ordered to attack, although had we been ordered to do so we would have done our duty, I would think, because we’d got to win the war.
>Corporal Norman Edwards, 1/6th Gloucestershire Regiment, 1894-1999
>Corporal Norman Edwards, 1/6th Gloucestershire Regiment, 1894-1999
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