| Remembering
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| Lieutenant
Foizey was buried in France |
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In
the middle of World War 1, on July 1st 1916, 2000 young men from
Bradford left their trenches in Northern France to advance across
no man's land. It was the first hour of the first day of the Battle
of the Somme.
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Scarlet
poppies grow naturally in conditions of disturbed earth.
The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol
to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae
in his poem In Flanders Fields.
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In
1974 a Â鶹Éç North crew accompanied some of the surviving Bradford
Pals on what was to be their last trip back to the Somme.
An
old comrade remembers the death of Lieutenant Foizey:
At
twenty-five-past seven the officer said, 'Fix bayonets.' At
half-past-seven away we go, and he said to me, I shall never
forget this, he said, 'I shan't come back,' and it was a gentleman
called Foizey. I said to him, 'Don't talk like that, I shall
come back,' and we hadn't gone above twenty yards over the top
when they opened up with the machine guns and we all dropped
down except the Colonel, and he said, 'Come on boys, up you
get, and he was shot straight away, killed. 
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