The Somme march BBC Coverage

All this week the BBC has been following the Great War reenactors as they follow the line of the British positions on the Somme. The pieces have all been serious informative articles that worked well. The group was about 50 strong with a cavalry comliment - I would like to have seen them all in their steel helmets as that would have been the order of the day at the front in 1916 but they otherwise put on a good show. We learnt about the British army staple the Curry, in use back in the 14-18, and that officers had batmen to service their needs. One unintentional funny moment was when the tv journalist, Robert Hall, asked two German reenactors if they liked marching! Luckily they had the correct response - 'I ought to - I was in the German army for four years!' Phew!