The teaspoon of Talana

Send a text On the 6th July 1915, hundreds of British soldiers left their trenches near the small Belgian village of Boesinghe in an attack against the German lines. Men from the Hampshire Regiment were tasked with the unenviable task of attacking a German strongpoint called Fortin 17. Over 600 men were killed that day, and thousands wounded. Almost 100 years later a team of amateur Belgian archaeologists unearthed a teaspoon that belonged to a man who was killed that afternoon. In th...