JennySeymour published Riddled with shrapnel head to toe - Oxted man reflects on heroic...

One hundred years ago today, Harry Angier's East Surrey Regiment battalion was decimated in the Battle of the Somme bloodbath.By the end of July 1 1916, Just 26 men were alive and uninjured in a company that had two days earlier numbered 1,000 men.Harry was not among them. The 21-year-old was one of the thousands mown down on the bloodiest day in British military history. He had stumbled across the no man's land quagmire and reached German lines, only to be blasted by artillery fire from his own...

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