Sir Frank Sanderson, 3rd Bt, who has died aged 89, successfully campaigned for the erection of a museum about the Battle of the Somme next to Lutyens’s great arch, the Memorial to the Missing, at Thiepval.
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Well before taking the world stage as wartime British prime minister, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was an early and key proponent of tanks.
When Britain's war effort was threatened by a shortage of shells, the government exhorted schoolchildren across the country to go on the hunt for horse chestnuts. Historian and broadcaster Saul David explains why.