The Allied High Command decided to attack the Germans to the North of Verdun, forcing the Germans to move some of their men away from the Verdun battlefield ... The Battle of the Somme has been ...

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 ...

A century on from the Battle of the Somme a photographer has put together ... interesting journey because the pictures are mainly of battlefields so it is very hard to locate those now." ...

On the Somme, they deployed a copy ... which conducts the battle and in the end decides its destinies.” Yet on the battlefields of Europe modern artillery and the machine gun had changed all ...

Poor Angéline, it is the worst sight that a man ever wants to see." 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 ...

A ceremony at the Lochnagar crater on the battlefield was ... at Westminster Abbey. The battle saw more than one million men killed and wounded on all sides. Somme, one of World War One's ...

He was discharged on Sept. 30, 1917, as a result of his injuries. Over 24,000 Canadians died during the Battle of the Somme. Despite his serious injuries, he was one of the fortunate ones who left ...

The 1st July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in ... winning film maker Bob Carruthers returns to the battlefield on 1st July and retraces the events which ...

Maur Sheil at the site of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France ... includes 79 contemporary photographs of World War I battlefields—the artist’s attempt to document the enduring ...