This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history. 57,000 British soldiers became casualties, most within a few hours of the ...

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 ...

The US Army's early attempt to create an armored vehicle fell short. See images of the flawed but influential Holt hybrid ...

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 ...

Beren and Lúthien has been described as a "very personal story" that the Oxford professor thought up after returning from the Battle of the Somme ... came back from the trenches, with trench ...

Just before dawn on April 9, 1917, Lieutenant Claude Williams lay in a muddy trench in northern France, cold and shivering and ready for battle. During the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 ...

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 ...