The battlefields filmed in colour in the 1930's by Anne Louise Avery's grandfather. “I cry every time I watch it. He only spoke of sharp fragments of his experiences - the time his pal, a regiment cook, accidentally cut off a couple of fingers in the horrendous cold, using pee to try to protect himself from mustard gas, friend after friend dying in front of him.”

Once more, as we approach Armistice Centenary, my grandfather's 1920s colour film of his pilgrimage to visit the trenches - the corn fields still strewn with rusting tanks, the war memorials freshly carved, the crosses of young lads still in greening oak. https://t.co/5nLx77clTn

— Anne Louise Avery (@AnneLouiseAvery) 14 October 2018