Trones Wood

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In our latest episode, we walk the battlefield in one of the lesser-known killing fields of the Somme, Trones Wood.

While diminutive in size, the wood was a fearsome obstacle, whose capture was essential for the wider assualts planned on the Somme front, starting on the 14th July.

For a period of five days, the British and Germans fought brutally for control of the wood, and it was a remarkable attack by the men of the Northamptonshire Regiment, that finally wrested control of the wood from the Germans.  Described by many veterans as the worst place they ever saw during the Great War, Trones Wood cost the British over 4000 casualties, and won the Northants their first Victoria Cross of World War One.