Today marks 100 years since the first day of the Battle of the Somme ... to the British soldiers killed in the Somme, young men dressed in WW1 uniforms appeared at stations and in city centres ...

This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history ...

The photo was taken a few months before many would be sent to the Battle of the Somme and where some would die, Mr Maasz said. He said he had been working on the project for more than five years.

At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we lost the flower of a generation”. Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the ...