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 hell. Pictured here, Canadian soldiers returning from the trenches of ...

57,000 British soldiers became casualties ... that was seen at the time as both unavoidable and necessary. The Battle of the Somme, of which 1st July was just the first, disastrous day, raged ...

In a ‘living memorial’ to the British soldiers killed in the Somme ... an emotional response on social media: The 141-day Battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916, preceded by an artillery ...

In 1966, on the 50th anniversary of the battle, Queen Elizabeth ... Clearly, to invoke the story of volunteer soldiers who engaged in acts of valour at the Somme offers associative dignity to ...

At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we ... mark the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Britain fell silent to mark the ...

The cemetery has almost 4,000 graves for soldiers killed trying to capture the woods. When discussing the Battle of the Somme, many people end with the first day, however there were another two ...

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.

In 1966, on the 50th anniversary of the battle, Queen Elizabeth ... Clearly, to invoke the story of volunteer soldiers who engaged in acts of valour at the Somme offers associative dignity to ...

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 ...