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In the first of our Battlefield Vlogs, we walk the Somme in the ground close to the village of Beaumont-Hamel and across the old No Man's Land to Hawthorn Ridge No 1 Cemetery. There we look at the story of Eric Heaton, who died here on 1st July 1916.
Old Front Line website for this Vlog with extra information: oldfrontline.co.uk/2023/04/29...
More on Eric Heaton here: somme1916.wordpress.com/2013/...
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Contemporary footage: National Archives, America.
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