The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916. The main aim of the battle was to relieve the important northern French fortress of Verdun. This had been placed under siege by the German Army ...

D-Day vet was told: 'You're the assault wave, you won't be coming back' AS his landing craft made its way to Juno beach, Alan King found himself surrounded by flames . . . and the heads ...

THE huge losses suffered by British soldiers as they tried unsuccessfully to break through the German line on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 100 years ago this month ...

Poor Angéline, it is the worst sight that a man ever wants to see." The Battle of the Somme lasted five months in 1916 and placed young men on both sides of the war in the middle of a protracted ...

WHILE July 1, 1916 marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, troops from the county first stepped foot on the now-infamous land nearly a year earlier. On July, 20, 1915, the British Army ...

When it was withdrawn from the line, the division had won a reputation ... observer that the Somme story had lost its immediacy. In 1966, on the 50th anniversary of the battle, Queen Elizabeth ...

Roam any drugstore and you'll see products that seem to be twins, except for one thing: One is for women, the other for men. We discovered that products directed at women—through packaging ...

HGTV’s “Battle on the Beach” spinoff “Battle on the Mountain” has officially come to an end after six hard-fought weeks of ...

Lee, and the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade, fought what may have been the most crucial battle of the war. If the South had won a major victory, some historians believe that ...

And visitors on this last weekend still have the chance to win a special edition Somme Poppy, made to commemorate the centenary of the battle. Visitors just have to leave their contact details ...

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 Source: AAP The French had Verdun, Australians have ...