Guillemont Road and the nearby Trones Wood were among the British
objectives of the great assault of July 1, 1916. The wood was
captured within two weeks, but Guillemont, scarcely a half-mile
away, was not reached until September. Michael Stedman tells the
story of Guillemont in depth and provides a detailed guide for
those who might want to actually visit the site, with a text backed
up by numerous maps, sketches and photographs in the familiar
Battleground Europe style.
The Guillemont Road cemetery contains 2,200 graves, and
monuments to the 16th (Irish) Division and other large units are
nearby, but Guillemont also provides many examples of personal
tragedy. Raymond Asquith, eldest son of Britain's wartime prime
minister, was killed here, as were the grandson of Charles Dickens
and many other promising young men.
Not everyone died, of course, and the Guillemont battle has been
particularly well-described from the German side by Ernst Junger,
who wrote of his wartime experiences in Storm of Steel, survived
the war despite being wounded 14 times, and was still alive and
still writing books over 80 years later.
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