A staggering 22,000 men lost their lives on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. The largest battle of the First World War would continue until November, with ...

A staggering 22,000 men lost their lives on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. The largest battle of the First World War would continue until November, with Allied and ...

索姆河战役（Battle of Somme）迎来100周年纪念日之际，英国和法国均举行一系列纪念活动。 周五（7月1日）当日的纪念活动在昔日战场上著名的“蓝勋 ...

The first reports of the Battle of the Somme in the Belfast Telegraph on 1 July 1916 "British Attack Begins" reads the headline in that Saturday's edition, while the typo errors in the following ...

Fought between July and November 1916, the Battle of the Somme was one of the defining events of the First World War and the largest battle on the western front. It saw over one million wounded ...

Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland’s first minister, has revealed that her husband’s great-uncle was wounded at the Somme but survived the battle. Foster, who is in northern France today for the ...

For the British, however, the single battle that defines the bloody attritional nature of the First World War is the Somme. Friday 1 July will mark 100 years since the battle began in north west ...

A First World War pilot's harrowing account of the bloody first day of the Battle of the Somme has emerged 109 years on with dozens of unseen photos. Lieutenant Edward Packe flew over the ...

The figures aim to show the scale of death on the first day of the battle Figurines representing each of the 19,240 British soldiers who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have been ...

The Battle of the Somme, one of WW1's bloodiest, was fought in northern France and lasted five months, with the British suffering almost 60,000 casualties on the first day alone. The British and ...

There were murderous battles in 1914 and 1915, but in 1916, at the Somme and at Verdun, the power of modern industry was applied in inexhaustible force to human flesh for the first time.