The Somme: Beaumont Hamel

Comments by Brian Pohanka - September 13, 2000

This beautiful panorama is on the Somme -- looking across the fields around Beaumont Hamel. This was a scene of unimaginable horror -- mud, rotting corpses, death and destruction -- the wasteland -- the slough of despond -- in 1916. [Wilfred] Owen suffered his shell shock in this area, down in the valley in the middle distance. Nature has healed it today.

Photo by Brian Pohanka