Few battles better epitomize the horror and futility of war than the Battle of the Somme as Canadian soldier Frank Maheux ...

The trench represents the 72,396 men killed in the Battle of the Somme, whose bodies were never recovered. It has been created at the Aerospace Bristol by Rob Heard, the artist behind the Shrouds ...

This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive ... offensive was part of a doomed attempt to break the deadlock of trench warfare. But behind the myths lies the story of an elaborately ...

The British army started an offensive in the trenches near the river Somme, forcing the German army to divert some of their troops away from Verdun. For seven days, the British fired 3 million ...

This July 1 marks the 98th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. This battle ... The remainder of the battle quickly devolved into trench warfare, and upwards of 1,000,000 soldiers ...

Cartoons and sketches drawn by a hero Lancashire soldier during the Battle of the Somme have been found in a plastic bag at the bottom of a wardrobe. The amazing images from the First World War ...

Virtually all British footage from World War I trenches and battlefields was filmed ... came with a documentary called The Battle of the Somme, which lasts around 70 minutes.

'An Eala Bhàn' (The White Swan) was penned by the North Uist poet Dòmhnall Chorùna as he recovered from injuries sustained in ...

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According to Gibbs, news of the horrors of the Somme were conveyed to more securely ... ‘intense smell of putrefaction which filled the trench – almost unbearable. The corpses lay either ...