Somme - A Bloody High Wood, Part 1

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On the 14th and 15th of July, 1916, the British 4th Army began its first attacks on High Wood, igniting a brutal struggle for important high ground on the Somme battlefield.

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0:00.0	There is a wood at the top of a hill.
0:06.6	If it's not shifted, it's standing there still.
0:10.5	There is a farm a short distance away, but I'd not advise you to go there by day.
0:17.4	But the snipers abound and the shells are not rare, and the man's only chance is to run like a hare.
0:23.6	So take my advice if you're chancing your arm from Highwood to Waterlot Farm.
0:30.6	High wood to Waterlaw Farm, all on a summer's day.
0:36.6	Up you get to the top of the trench, though you're sniped at all the way.
0:41.3	If you've got a smoke helmet there, you'd best put it on if you could.
0:46.3	For the wood down by Waterlaw Farm is a bloody high wood.
0:52.3	Lieutenant Ewert Alan McIntosh. is a bloody high wood.
0:57.3	Lieutenant Ewert Alan McIntosh,
1:00.4	first of the fifth Seaforth Highlanders.
1:15.6	Highwood, the Psalm, 1916. Hello, green. Too far to give the world green on a summer day. Up, we climbed all the moon of us and we started right away.
1:22.6	Away.
1:23.6	Away. Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast, episode 18, Psalm, a bloody high wood, part one.
1:40.8	So the poem I just read in the intro, Highwood to Waterlot Farm, was adapted from a
1:48.7	1915 music hit called Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green, which you just heard as this episode's
1:56.5	intro music. A YouTube link will be provided on Twitter, the Facebook, and First World War
2:03.3	Podcast.com. So everyone out there can listen and then sing along to it. It's actually a wicked
2:11.7	catchy tune. All right. So the BFWP got a couple of shoutouts. First shoutout came from Mr. Phil
2:21.4	Manel at World War I Digger Stories. Awesome guy. If you haven't heard that podcast yet,
2:28.9	please give it a listen. Also, second shout out came from my stepson Lee, who does the Viking Age podcast.
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