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 ...

That attack 100 years ago was the long-awaited “Big Push”—the beginning of the Somme Offensive and the ... in the first 15 minutes of the battle. “It was about this time that my feeling ...

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 ...

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 ...

1st July 1916 The Blackest Day. The 1st July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. 60,000 men became casualties on that one day ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost 2,000 soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division died on the first day of the Somme campaign. When it was withdrawn from the line, the division had won a reputation as courageous soldiers.

A year on from the death of their founder Alain Sylvain, the agency’s leadership team reflect on the process of grieving in the workplace and what became one of their most successful business years to ...

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 ...