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Interested in the Charles Randall story. Having survived the worst day in British military history on the  first day of the Somme on July 1st, I suspect he was involved in the attack on Delville Wood earlier in this month and died in the aftermath of holding the ground taken. He was fighting just along the line from the 16th Royal Scots, McCraes Battalion which was known as the Sporting Battalion as it was made up of many different sportsmen but most notably the First team of perhaps the best team in Scotland at that time, Heart of Midlothian.............unfortunately they took a lot of casualties on July 1st in their quest to take Contalmaison where a cairn has been erected in their memory. There were inter regiment football games played so you never know perhaps he played against the Hearts players before July 1916?

Interestingly Dantzig cemetery is the British and Allies spelling of the area. Originally on the maps it was a German communication trench termed Danzig Alley with no "t". It is thought the change happened as in German , the "z" is pronounced "tz" and even during the Second World War there is some spelling of na*i as natzi.


Mortons ground has hardly changed since your Texaco Cup game