TOM MORGAN 

TOM MORGAN'S SOMME DIARY

During Easter 1996, I visited the Somme Battlefields, alone, and camped in the area for a week.  By July, I had written the Somme Diary, and originally posted it, in seven sections, to the World War 1 Mailing List over a period of one week from 1st. July, 1996 - the eightieth anniversary of the opening of the battle.

A couple of months later, the Somme Diary became the original seven articles which formed the first version of Hellfire Corner. These are the first seven parts included in the contents-table below. The Diary will be added to following future visits to the Somme.

	TOM MORGAN'S SOMME DIARY
	SOMME DIARY - PART ONE Around Beaumont Hamel, where the Battles of the Somme began and ended.
	SOMME DIARY - PART TWO The Newfoundland Memorial Park at Beaumont Hamel.
	SOMME DIARY - PART THREE Serre and the story of the Accrington Pals.
	SOMME DIARY - PART FOUR Searching for an Airfield and Discovering War Cemeteries at Morchies.
	SOMME DIARY - PART FIVE The town of Albert, the mine-crater at la Boiselle and the Devonshire Cemetery.
	SOMME DIARY - PART SIX The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing - and how I became "Lost in the Trenches."
	SOMME DIARY - PART SEVEN To Ypres and back to the Somme.

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