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At the Beaumont Hamel Memorial France single work   poetry   "The boy's letter hangs straight on the pale wall,"
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 At the Beaumont Hamel Memorial France
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Notes

  • Epigraph: "It was a mignificent display of trained and disciplined valour, and its assault only failed of success because dead men can advance no further."
  • Author's note: Said of the actions of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment by the Commander of the 29th British Division, at the Battle of the Somme.

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