THE Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest in Britain’s history, lasting nearly five months. On July 1, 1916, brave British troops advanced but more than 400,000 died and 1.3 million we… ...

The Battle of the Somme, of which 1st July was just the first, disastrous day, raged for another four months, ... Here are 7 Italian-American foods you won't find there.

The Battle of the Somme. 100 years ago, the bloody birth of modern warfare. ... That bloody first day would set the tone for the rest of the long battle, as inches of mud were won at terrible cost.

The Somme has become a byword for slaughter, with those events of July 1, 1916, reverberating through British history ever since. The Somme campaign, which lasted until November 1916, was to yield ...

The battle would last 141 days, ending finally on November 18, 1916, and only 20 miles of land, six miles wide, was won in that time. ... The Battle of the Somme officially ended on November 18.

Live coverage, video and text updates of the World War One centenary coverage from across the BBC marking 100 years since the Battle of the Somme ...

On July 1, 1916, nearly 20,000 British soldiers died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in northern France. The battle went on for months, and more than a million men were killed or injured.

The 16th Irish Division which saw service at the Battle of the Somme was, like its Ulster equivalent, the 36th Ulster Division, a product of rising tension in Ireland during the Home Rule crisis ...

PEOPLE across Oxfordshire will today pay tribute to thousands of soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of the Somme. On July 1, 1916, there were almost 60,000 casualties and they will be ...

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 ...