Poignant sound of whistles heard as tributes paid to the 20,000 British soldiers killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme - 109 years ago ...

This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history. 57,000 British soldiers became casualties, most within a few hours of ...

Today, July 1 is the 100th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. As I have written this week, there is no single battle in modern ...

As the sun rose over the valley of the Somme River in northern France on the first of July a century ago, the soldiers of the British Empire began their charge on the entrenched Germans. It would ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago this week, the greatest battle of the First World War began — the Battle of the Somme. Hope died that day, and the modern age began. The River Somme wanders through bucolic ...

On July 1, 1916, the first shots were fired in what would become one of the bloodiest engagements in human history, the 141-day Battle of the Somme. It was nearly two years into what was then ...

What was the Battle of the Somme? 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 ...

#WeAreHere: Soldiers hand out cards for the fallen soldiers of the Battle of the Somme on centenary Candlelight vigils were held across the country at war memorials to commemorate their sacrifice ...

The First World War has all but passed out of living memory. Yet its hold on the imagination is as powerful as ever. Why is this? The answer may lie in the Battle of the Somme, the engagement that ...