The Battle of the Somme has come to stand for the horrific slaughter and stalemate that characterised so much of the fighting in the First World War. Memory of the Somme, 1 July 1916 (H. Russell ...

A painting depicting a World War One battle in which hundreds of Welshmen died is the centrepiece of a new exhibition marking its centenary. About 4,000 men from the 38th (Welsh) Division were ...

The copper instrument belonged to Private George Alan Carver, a soldier from the 12th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (DLI), ...

One of the bloodiest engagements of the war was the Battle of the Somme. Nearly 1,500,000 British soldiers were wounded or killed. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, was a signal ...

The Battle of the Somme was also known as the Somme Offensive (Picture: PA) The Allies’ original plan was for an attack on three European fronts in a bid to end years of sapping trench warfare.

The British suffered from almost 60,000 casualties on the first day of the battle. Of those, almost 20,000 soldiers died alongside 7,000 French and 8,000 German soldiers.

July 1-Nov. 18, 1916. The Battle of the Somme. 100 years ago, the bloody birth of modern warfare. by Alex Q. Arbuckle (opens in a new tab) ...

The Battle of the Somme would rage on, inconclusively, until November 18, dragging over a million men into its vortex of suffering and death.

On July 1, 1916, nearly 20,000 British soldiers died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in northern France. The battle went on for months, and more than a million men were killed or injured.

A painting depicting a World War One battle in which hundreds of Welshmen died is the centrepiece of a new exhibition marking its 100th anniversary. BBC Homepage. Skip to content; ...