Just as we in Britain use the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance, so French people use the blue cornflower and German people use the blue forget-me-not.

West Lancashire now has an eight and a half mile themed walk, The War Horse Route, which focuses on the Ormskirk-Lathom- Burscough area. Around 215,000 horses and mules were imported into Canada Dock, Liverpool; they were moved to Ormskirk by train and then by road to the Lathom Park Remount Centre. Further details at www.lbmhs.co.uk/remount-history

Running at the National Railway Museum, York, at present is an exhibition telling the forgotten story of the ambulance trains used to evacuate sick and injured soldiers on an unprecedented scale. For further details go to www.nrm.org.uk

In September 1916 a new British weapon entered the war: the Landship – which came to be nicknamed ‘tank’ (because its parts were shipped to the front in crates marked ‘water tanks’ to conceal their true purpose).

Publishing firms Pen & Sword and the History Press are each releasing a series of books about towns in the Great War.