Railway Hollow Cemetery, the site of 107 burials Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE Point 110 Cemetery, with a Cross of Sacrifice at its entrance Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE France has some 280 burial ...

War graves lit up for a vigil to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme at the Thiepval memorial Source: AAP The French had Verdun, Australians have ...

The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916. The main aim of the battle was to relieve the important northern French fortress of Verdun. This had been placed under siege by the German Army ...

At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we lost the flower of a generation”. Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the ...