My lovely wife has just put her orchestral soundtrack to the film The Battle of the Somme on Bandcamp. The film shows footage from the First World War; and, when it was released in 1916, almost half the population watched it. It's an amazing, important film. For part of her research we went to visit the Somme battlefields. I was chauffeur and chief map reader. Just before we went, Laura's aunt mentioned that her Great-Uncle was at the Somme and she had his diaries from that time. It turned out he was positioned...