The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

British gunners fire Howitzers during the bombardment of German trenches on the first day of the Battle of the Somme 1916. For a full week before the launch of the battle, the German trenches had ...

Today marks 100 years since the first day of the Battle of the Somme ... In a ‘living memorial’ to the British soldiers killed in the Somme, young men dressed in WW1 uniforms appeared at ...

The men had actually broken through the German lines, unlike most of the British ... for a mythic battle in the Unionist history book. On the banks of a tributary of the River Somme, a sacrifice ...

The battle saw more than one million men killed and wounded on all sides. Somme, one of World War One's bloodiest, was fought in northern France and lasted five months, with the British suffering ...

This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history ... of an elaborately-planned battle, fought against a determined ...

and the heads, arms and legs of dismembered British soldiers floating ashore. It is 75 years since he witnessed the carnage of the first assault on D-Day but the memory reduces him to tears.

The men had actually broken through the German lines, unlike most of the British ... for a mythic battle in the Unionist history book. On the banks of a tributary of the River Somme, a sacrifice ...

The recent commemoration ceremonies in Britain and France on 1 July marked the 100th anniversary of the worst military disaster in British history. On that day in 1916, a large ...

Image: War graves lit up for a vigil to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme at the Thiepval memorial (AAP) Almost 20,000 British soldiers lost their lives ...