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[Alan de Enfield]

"A Time Team Special" on Channel 4 tonight 9:00pm

'Excavating the Somme' - exepect lots of Enfield 'bits' (had to say that to stay on topic)

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[me2]

That sounds like what I saw some months ago here in the states. Yes you will get a short look at a completely rust encased Enfield and some of the ammo also dug up. Lots of 8MM as I remember. The film didnt dwell heavily on the guns. I know for sure from viewing the trenches and the "Duck Boards" those poor men had to walk on and the mud and filth in general I would not have been at all happy to have lived like they had to. They were heros.

[peregrinvs]

"In the half-light of dawn, on the frontline of the Somme battlefield on 1 July 1916, a small metal nozzle pushed its way up through the ground in No Man's Land to point at the German front line.
On the signal, a terrifying stream of burning oil shot out of the nozzle, drenching the German trenches in flaming diesel. The soldiers that didn't flee would have burned alive.
It was the day the British army launched an all-out assault in northern France. Along the 16-mile front, tens of thousands of soldiers died and the only ground that the British forces captured was around the village of Mametz, where historian Peter Barton believes that a top-secret and terrible weapon, known as a Livens Flame Projector, was deployed.
Although there are plans and secret war diaries, not one piece of this weapon exists in any museum in the world.
Tony Robinson joins a unique dig near Mametz, delving into the past to find out whether or not this weapon really was deployed and, if so, whether it really worked in the way that was described. And, employing the skills of the Royal Engineers, a replica Livens Flame Projector fires up for one last, terrifying, time".
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/t...es-6/episode-2

[Gnr527]

Very interesting programme

Horrific weapon

John

[Brit plumber]

you know whats really good about channel 4 and other uk channels for that matter, you cant watch on the internet outside the uk. I'm stuck in Ialy with no UK TV, but I have managed to buy a Internet dongle and I cant watch my favourite programmes. At least I can get on my favourite forum.

[Peter Laidler]

Still enjoying your free Mediterranean holiday down there in Italy BP. Keep safe, lie back and enjoy............