True accounts of the First World War / The Great War / WWI as told by the soldiers themselves!
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episode 4: Tocs premonition Pozieres
This is it, the Battle of Pozieres. Len describes the taking of this infamous French Village between the 22nd and 27th of July 1916.
Toc Oates had a premonition of death at Gallipoli. Now you can see what happens! But, Len loses several mates at Pozieres, not just "Toc". 126 men from Len's Battalion were killed, a true decimation.
He also describes being blown out of a trench, digger buried men out, holding a man who died in his arms, killing a German with the butt of his rifle and another with a bayonet.
Finally, we go with Len as the Battalion is finally relieved and moves out of the line.