Somme selfies: Tommy in the sheepskin coat
In the run-up to July’s centenary of one of the bloodiest battles in human history, The Independent is publishing a different Tommy’s picture every day
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Your support makes all the difference.This soldier is not a Greek partisan but a British Tommy, pictured in northern France in the bitter winter of 1915-16, before the terrible battle of the Somme. Overcoats were short that winter. Sheepskins were sent out from Britain instead. This unidentified soldier is also wearing a “Gor Blimey” hat – first issued in 1915. British soldiers fought without steel helmets for most of 1914 and 1915.
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