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 ...
Gas-masked men of the British Machine Gun Corps with a Vickers machine gun during the first battle of the Somme. Dated 1916 (Photo : Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images) ...
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 ...
This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. The British offensive on the Somme began on July 1, 1916. After 20 weeks, they had advanced six miles. The German ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin University. At exactly 7.30 in the morning, 100 years ago today, thousands of British soldiers went “over the top” towards enemy lines in the lowlands ...
THE first day of the Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest in British military history, leaving more than 19,000 dead and 38,000 wounded. For almost five months, the battle raged through the mud of ...
A POWERFUL and poignant exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme opens tomorrow (Friday, March 24. Somme 1916: From Durham To The Western Front shows how ordinary ...
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