{"id":5711,"date":"2016-07-01T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T07:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2016-07-12T01:29:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T00:29:35","slug":"trinity-remembers-the-somme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/trinity-remembers-the-somme\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity remembers the Somme"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As this month’s edition of\u00a0Trinity News<\/em> is published we will all be very much aware of the centenary on 1st July\u00a0of the start of the Battle of the Somme. This day saw the greatest carnage for the first day of a battle at any time in our history.<\/p>\n

This battle was planned to be a huge assault by the British and their French allies on the German lines in an attempt to bring to an end nearly two years of war.<\/p>\n

The day started with massive explosions of mines in the Somme area of France. \u00a0Apparently these could be heard from London. \u00a0It was followed by advances on the German trenches, but the Germans were ready and the British and French troops were slaughtered in their tens of thousands.<\/p>\n

Among the dead that day was Herbert Mackenzie<\/strong>, aged about 28.<\/p>\n

Herbert Mackenzie was the son of Trinity members who lived in Quicks Road and he grew up through the Sunday School.\u00a0 He joined the \u2018Tyneside Scottish\u2019 battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. \u00a0Herbert wrote for the last time to his parents on the 30th <\/sup>June, knowing that a big initiative was imminent. \u00a0In the great battle which began next day he was posted as \u201cmissing\u201d; but subsequently there was no doubt that he had been killed with so many others – 584 from his own Brigade and about 19,200 British men – that day.<\/p>\n

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In fact the Battle of the Somme not only failed to bring a swift conclusion to the war, but it raged on for another five months finally ending on 18th\u00a0<\/sup>November. \u00a0In all that time the allies only gained ten miles of ground from the Germans. \u00a0The total number killed in the battle reached 1,115,000 of whom 485,000 were British and French. \u00a0This included two more Trinity men, Eric Dunfee Meredith and Frederick Atkinson.<\/p>\n

All these Trinity men are named on our brass War Memorial in the church and Herbert and Fred, as former Sunday School scholars, are commemorated on the wooden memorial used by the Chinese group every Sunday. \u00a0As none of them has a known grave they are listed on the vast Thiepval Memorial which overlooks the Somme battlefields.<\/p>\n

\"L1110575.jpg<\/a>Further details of these and other Trinity young men killed in action in the First World War can be found on the Trinity Remembers website www.trinityremembers.wordpress.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As this month’s edition of\u00a0Trinity News is published we will all be very much aware of the centenary on 1st July\u00a0of the start of the Battle of the Somme. This day saw the greatest carnage for the first day of a battle at any time in our history. This battle was planned to be a … <\/p>\n

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