Buried Alive

In 1916, Canadian soldiers suffer more than 24,000 casualties during the Somme Campaign. and were tasked with assaulting the fiercely defended German position known as “Regina Trench”. The Trench Detectives excavate, uncovering a treasure trove of artifacts, including a German mess tin with a name scratched repeatedly on its sides.The team identifies its owner. Remarkably, before the war he was a miner and a grave digger—famous in his family for a morbid fear of being buried alive and an obsession with putting his name on all his personal belongings.