Strange British radio report

[paul guthrie]

Was listening to National Public Radio Savvy Traveler yesterday. You can probably hear the story by going to the NPR web site. Reporter named Stotts wa going to the Somme for July 1 with a group that included a tour guide, saw Beaumont Hamel, Lochnagar though not named, clear that's where he was and Thiepval. He saw an A Stotts there, said it might be his great grandfather, did not know where he was buried. That's real ignorant. It's hard to believe he was not told what the memorial of for, that there is a register and there is CWGC in case the man ib in a known grave or would tell him where memorialized if not. The guide knew all this so what gives?

[Terry Denham]

Paul

I also heard the broadcast on BBC on Sunday but I did not get that impression.

I understood that he knew where his grandfather was buried (he had telephoned CWGC) but not where the cemetery was located. His tour actually went to the site on the Somme (he did mention the small cemetery but the name eludes me) and he became the first member of his family to visit the grave.

He was a journalist doing a story on why people go on battlefield tours and so joined a group rather than going on his own to find his grandfather. His subsequent attitude was very positive towards tours and remembrance in general.

[paul guthrie]

Terry he did say the A Stotts on the memorial might be his great grandfather. But I was on my way to a movie and was talking with volume low when it started and probably missed some of it.