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 British mine explosion that marked the start of the Battle of the Somme left a crater that allowed German troops to press forward into No Man’s Land, it has emerged. By July 1, 1916 ...

Before what has been called the second phase of the allied Somme offensive began in September, German soldiers had already invented the term, ‘The Bloodbath of the Somme’ to describe the ...

The Battle of the Somme finally ended in late November, when rain, snow and sleet made operations impossible. It was difficult to tell victor from vanquished, The Germans had 660,000 dead or wounded.

Almost 2,000 soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division died on the first day of the Somme campaign ... The men had actually broken through the German lines, unlike most of the British infantry ...

Somme, one of World War One's bloodiest ... The British and French armies fought the Germans in a brutal battle of attrition on a 15-mile front. At the ceremony at the Lochnagar crater, which ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. About 100,000 Allied soldiers went "over the top" to face the German army in the valley of the River Somme. Somerset artist Rob ...

Cartoons and sketches drawn by a hero Lancashire soldier during the Battle of the Somme have been found in ... before serving in The Rhine area of Germany until Autumn 1919. He returned to ...

D-Day vet was told: 'You're the assault wave, you won't be coming back' AS his landing craft made its way to Juno beach, Alan King found himself surrounded by flames . . . and the heads ...