Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

A very annoying guide to the Somme battlefields

Our visit was marred by his tuneless humming and lack of historical insight but a few beers put everything right

Tyneside Irish Brigade attack on La Boisselle, 1 July 1916 [Robert Hunt Library/Windmill Books/UIG/Getty Images]

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