At 7 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the British Army unleashed a hellish assault against German positions on the Western Front in France, along the River Somme. The roar was so loud that it was heard in London ...
A detailed look at the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, one of the deadliest military operations of World War I.
A British soldier’s battered World War I diary recounting the bloody Battle of the Somme has been discovered in a U.K. barn. The diary, which was written in pencil by Private Arthur Edward Diggens of ...
The poignant sketchbook of a World War One surgeon has been unearthed more than a century later, alongside previously unseen photos of Britain's bloodiest conflict. Captain Theodore Howard Somervell ...
July 1, 1916, marked the beginning of a nearly five-months-long fight on the banks of the Somme river in northern France. By the time the battle ended on Nov. 18, French, British and German forces had ...
THIEPVAL, France (AP) — A 100-year-old trench, its edges now smoothed over by verdant overgrowth, snakes through a French meadow. Craters carved by bombs in the Battle of the Somme still pock the ...
FeatureOn the site of the bloodiest battle of World War I, residents of Ovillers-la-Boisselle uphold the tradition of the bagpipers from Scottish, Irish, Canadian and Australian regiments who lost ...
Áine Groogan said it was important to remember those who died at the Battle of the Somme Wreaths have been laid at Belfast City Hall to mark the 107th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the ...
The cataclysmic Battle of the Somme began 100 years ago. “The Somme”. The two words have echoed chillingly across the last century. As World War I reached an appalling bloody climax, thousands of ...
It's one of the most famous mines that the British detonated during the whole of the First World War. But the explosion at Hawthorn Ridge on July 1, 1916 was a 'colossal blunder' that led to the ...
The Somme - a bloody battle which brought the war home and ravaged communities across the North East
One hundred years ago today at 7.30am the sound of officers’ whistles signalled the dawn of the Battle of the Somme - one of the bloodiest clashes in history which left permanent scars and lead to a ...
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