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

In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this ... day of the Battle of the Somme. Private Charlie 'Ginger' Byrne from the 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment was number three in a Vickers gun team ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme ... mown down in their thousands by machine gun and artillery fire. This day set a bloody precedent: the Somme campaign wore on for five months and ...

In a ‘living memorial’ to the British soldiers killed in the Somme, young men dressed in WW1 uniforms ... to have been Sidney Lewis, who was just 13. By the time the battle ended on 18 ...

A diary detailing a soldier's experience in the Battle of the Somme has been discovered in a ... reckon that every German had a machine gun." Five days later, Pte Diggins wrote: "A shell drops ...

Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Britain fell ... Royal Horse Artillery fired guns from Parliament Square for ...

The city burns under relentless fire from distant guns. Endless barrages ... It's evocative of the grinding battles of Ypres, the harrowing scenes at the Battle of the Somme, Mr Bell says.