Somme
About Somme
The Somme is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. It is part of the Hauts-de-France region. It is bordered by Pas-de-Calais and Nord to the north, Aisne to the east, Oise to the south and Seine-Maritime to the southwest. To the northwest, its coastline faces the English Channel and it shares maritime borders with Kent and East Sussex in the United Kingdom. It had a population of 565,413 in 2023.
On the show — 4 mentions total
He signed up age 12. He fought for six weeks at the Somme, pretty serious stuff. He got sent home after his mum sent a copy of his birth certificate to the war office and said, that is my 12-year-old son fighting in the war. Please send him home.
from 340: No Such Thing As A Didgeridoo in a Bar, 2020-09-25 at 00:47:00 · read transcript
Other times Somme came up
There was a lot of friendliness there's a really good book about world or one called meeting the enemy the human face of the great war and even more friendly than that there was one instance where Brits arrived at the Somme and they were expecting they were like you know we're fighting the enemy you know all geared up for a massive battle and they arrived and they just found on a bit of barbed wire a note and it was from the.
199: No Such Thing As An Heroic Fire-Goat, 2018-01-12 · listen
Even more friendly than that, there was one instance where Brits arrived at the Somme and they were expecting, they were like, you know, we're fighting the enemy, you know, all geared up for a massive battle. and they arrived, and they just found on a bit of barbed wire a note, and it was from the.
No Such Thing As An Heroic Fire-Goat, 2018-01-12 · listen
Coordinates: 49.8833, 2.4167