AT 5.40pm on July 19, 1916, 100 men from the Oxfordshire and
Buckinghamshire Light Infantry filed out into No Man's Land and lay
down.
Twenty minutes later, with a cheer, they leapt up and threw themselves on the enemy's trenches. The machine guns mowed down almost all of them.
Twenty minutes later, with a cheer, they leapt up and threw themselves on the enemy's trenches. The machine guns mowed down almost all of them.