Full coverage of the commemorations marking 100 years since the Battle of the Somme The Battle of the Somme was fought between 1 July and 18 November 1916, with over a million British, French and ...
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3. What really happened at the Battle of the Somme (1916)
Men went over the top and into gunfire - 20,000 died on day one. The Somme wasn’t a battle, it was a machine that swallowed a generation.
Hundreds of people gathered early this morning to pay their respects to the 20,000 British soldiers who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme - 109 years ago today. They arrived at the huge ...
International ceremonies are being held today to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme's final day. Around 2,000 guests will gather in the northern French village of Thiepval, which has been ...
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How the Somme exposed the horrors of trench warfare
This video illustrates the catastrophic scale of the Battle of the Somme, the deadliest campaign of World War One. Animated maps and visuals show how the offensive unfolded across fortified trenches ...
Plans to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, with a series of events next year, have been announced by the Irish government. The Somme was one of the bloodiest battles of World War One with ...
Overnight in London, an honor guard stood vigil at the grave of the Unknown Warrior. On Friday morning, across Great Britain, citizens observed a moment of silence. And midday Friday, at a quiet field ...
Railway Hollow Cemetery, the site of 107 burials Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE Point 110 Cemetery, with a Cross of Sacrifice at its entrance Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE France has some 280 burial grounds ...
A First World War pilot's harrowing account of the bloody first day of the Battle of the Somme has emerged 109 years on with dozens of unseen photos. Lieutenant Edward Packe flew over the Western ...
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 ...
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 being ...
That's all for our live coverage of the national remembrance of the Battle of the Somme. Thanks for following our updates and for sharing your commemorations with us online. The battle of the Somme ...
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