Another very busy, yet amazing day today. We began at Warlencourt Cemetery for a very detailed introduction into the process of identifying and burying the dead by our historian Pete. Then began our tour of 1916, starting at Pozieres. Australian ran up a total of 23,000 casualties here in a matter of months. No other battlefield on Earth is more densely sown with our dead. We stood on the "high ground" on the ridge, a pimple in the landscape upon which the ruins of an old windmill stands. Other highlights from the day include Thiepval Memorial, Beaumont-Hamel, the beginning of presentations (of which we heard about Frederick Septimus Kelly from me, Raymond Cecil Heaton from Rhiannon, Claude Castleton from Brodie and a very moving performance from Jenna, Liv and Lucy), finishing with the Gibraltar Blockhouse and the First Division Memorial.
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