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Battle of the Somme 1916
This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history ...
English actor Daniel Craig has left an indelible mark on Hollywood's film industry, starring in leading roles such as ...
The trench represents the 72,396 men killed in the Battle of the Somme, whose bodies were never recovered. It has been created at the Aerospace Bristol by Rob Heard, the artist behind the Shrouds ...
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 ...
Virtually all British footage from World War I trenches and battlefields was ... The big turning point came with a documentary called The Battle of the Somme, which lasts around 70 minutes.
However, he was able to make it back to the British trenches for treatment ... at the 100 year memorial of the Battle of the Somme in Thiepval”.
The battle saw more than one million men killed and wounded on all sides. Somme, one of World War ... 100 years ago as men scrambled from the trenches. Ahead of the two-minute silence in the ...
British gunners fire Howitzers during the bombardment of German trenches on the first day of the Battle of the Somme 1916. For a full week before the launch of the battle, the German trenches had ...
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 ...