The Battle of the Somme lasted five months in 1916 and placed young men on both sides of the war in the middle of a protracted hell. Pictured here, Canadian soldiers returning from the trenches of ...

British artillery guns battered the enemy lines with a five-day-long artillery barrage intended to destroy the German barbed wire, wreck their trenches ... The Battle of the Somme has been ...

After July 1, every battalion, division and corps was required to deliver a post-battle ... “The Somme was the muddy grave of the German field army.” German soldiers in the trenches with ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One, as the Allied forces attempted to break through the German front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive ...

A museum of moving images in Kent will reopen this weekend with new exhibitions. The Museum of the Moving Image (Momi) in ...

Musson was born on Dec. 18, 1893. He was enlisted on Jan. 14, 1915, and was sent to France shortly thereafter. Musson was wounded in France during the Battle of the Somme on the fourth attack (and ...

Maur Sheil at the site of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, you can trace grass-covered trenches and pockmarks from exploded bombshells. More than a million men were wounded or killed ...

Before what has been called the second phase of the allied Somme offensive began in September ... smell of putrefaction which filled the trench – almost unbearable. The corpses lay either ...