Mametz Wood Flashcards
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What year -mametz wood
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2005
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What was is this about -mametz wood
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Battle of the Somme. Welsh poet visits site of slaughter of Welsh soldiers in WW1 Somme battlefield.
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What is important the the history and present of a welsh man -mametz wood
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Agricultural and mining significance of land as history for Welsh men.
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Hope did he respond to a ww1 photo -mametz wood
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Response to a photograph of 20 dead WW1 soldiers all with linked arms in a shallow grave.
Sheers: “the strange juxtaposition of its natural present against its all too unnatural past.”
