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Schofield reflects after the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916)
Schofield thought back to the day’s dawn, a day which held unimaginable horrors, but which seemed to begin so beautifully. The sun as it rose had been invisible behind the bank of smoke, but it flushed the sky with red. It was a truly terrible dawn, most beautiful in its terror, and if ever dawn did indeed come up like thunder, it was this.