When I was on the Great War battlefields recently......

[Roger Payne]

I was lucky enough to be able to go with a small party of people to look round one of the subterranean tunnel systems under the village of Bouzincourt. This little village, just north of Albert, was just behind the British lines during the fighting on the Somme. Most of the villages had tunnel systems dating back to the middle ages, many of which were used & enlarged by the Royal Engineers during the fighting. This particular system bears truly HUGE amounts of graffiti, much of it Canadian. This one particular chap's scratchings caught my eye, as, yes, he was a sniper in the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. I'm not sure how well it will show up in the photo, as it was taken under rather less than ideal conditions, but hopefully it will be at least in part legible & of interest. I haven't checked as yet, but wonder if sniper Alex McRae survived?

Incidentally, there were still ration tins & clips of 303 ammo down there. (And we were on our honour to leave them there, too!).

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