In the middle of World War 1, on July 1st 1916, 2000 young men from Bradford left their trenches in Northern France to advance across no man's land. It was the first hour of the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

In 1974 a BBC North crew accompanied some of the surviving Bradford Pals on what was to be their last trip back to the Somme.

An old comrade remembers the death of Lieutenant Foizey:

At twenty-five-past seven the officer said, 'Fix bayonets.' At half-past-seven away we go, and he said to me, I shall never forget this, he said, 'I shan't come back,' and it was a gentleman called Foizey. I said to him, 'Don't talk like that, I shall come back,' and we hadn't gone above twenty yards over the top when they opened up with the machine guns and we all dropped down except the Colonel, and he said, 'Come on boys, up you get, and he was shot straight away, killed.