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

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 ...

He was barely 17 years old and he lied about his age. He had his baptism of fire at the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916. The British prepared for the battle with a massive bombardment of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The First World War is renowned for its massive Battles fought on an industrial scale, particularly the grinding stalemate ...

The Somme, 5 July 1916 - A major British and French ... days are but the beginning of a long phase of the campaign. In this battle, it is already clear that there will be no easy resolution ...

And fate seemed to have loaned a hand in turning the story of the Somme into an inspirational Unionist narrative. On the old, Julian calendar the 1st day of July had been the date of the Battle of ...

Pte James Miller VC, who was born near Hoghton, Lancashire, in 1890, was shot while delivering a message in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, but fought on to make sure the note got through before ...

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 ...

Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Britain fell silent to mark the moment on 1 July 1916 when the battle began and ...