Battle of the Somme - Preparation in the Great War

[@bobporch]

Another very good video. 👍It is so regrettable that it took the British and French High Command until 1918 to grow some imagination. I just returned from a trip to Amiens and the Somme. I visited a number of CEF Cemeteries and was able to put a bouquet of flowers on my Great Uncle Max's grave at Vrely. Considering I do not speak French, it was a most interesting adventure. The ANZACs are still very much appreciated and remembered in that area. The people were exceptionally friendly and helpful. It would seem that some of the battlefields that were most heavily shelled, now only grow windmills. A century later, it is still too dangerous to plow some areas.

[@cefrg]

ANZACs almost same number of casualties as CEF. They have maybe three times the distance to travel to the Western Front? Yet they outnumber Canadians at least 10-1 when it comes to returning to the battlefields/cemeteries. I do not understand why Canadians do not practice Remembrance like our friends from the southern hemisphere.