we’re here because we’re here
Thousands of volunteers took part in a UK-wide event on Friday 1 July
2016, as a modern memorial to mark the centenary of the Battle of the
Somme. 19,240 men were killed on the first day of the battle in 1916 –
the bloodiest day in British military history.‘we’re here because we’re here’ saw around 1400 voluntary
participants dressed in First World War uniform appear unexpectedly in
locations across the UK. Each participant represented an individual
soldier who was killed on that day one hundred years before.#WeAreHere