James Cockburn and Chichester University

Chichester University: It cut so clean it could have been left yesterday. Only the date next to it April 1, 1917 roots it in the horrors of World War I, according to Metro News. It shows how soldiers form a sense of place and an understanding of their role in a harsh and hostile environment, said historian Ross Wilson of Chichester University in Britain and France A headlamp cuts through the darkness of a rough-hewn passage 100 feet underground to reveal an inscription: James Cockburn 8th Durham L.I. The piece of graffiti by a soldier in a British infantry unit is just one of nearly 2,000 century-old inscriptions that have recently come to light in Naours, a two-hour drive north of Paris. Many marked a note for posterity in the face of the doom that trench warfare a few dozen miles away would bring to many. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.