The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916. The main aim of the battle ... A German machine gun unit defending trenches during World War One. German machine guns, such as the MG08 ...

Almost 2,000 soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division died on the first day of the Somme campaign. When it was withdrawn from the line, the division had won a reputation as courageous soldiers.

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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 ... On the morning of July 1, 1916, 100,000 British troops came out of their ...

Only a single oak survived the destruction of Delville Wood at Longueval, site of the last battle on the ... Longueval in the Somme area of France during the First World War.

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 Reform UK MP harked back to World War One as he insisted that men ... replied: “Try the Battle of the Somme.” The 57-year-old Anderson was not even born until half a century after the ...