Six stands in one day: walking the Somme battlefield
Stand 2: Beaumont Hamel today
- A memorial standing near the sunken lane's junction with New Beaumont Road commemorates not the 1 July attack, but 1/8th Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who helped take the village on 13 November 1916.
- The edges of the sunken lane are now lined by bushes. On its eastern edge warning tapes mark the position of a bunker which collapsed during ploughing in about 1999.
- The German trenches ran along the edge of the trees across the field to the east: a small cemetery between the sunken lane and the German position marks the spot in no man's land where many of the attackers were killed.
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