At 7 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the British Army unleashed a hellish assault against German positions on the Western Front in France, along the River Somme. The roar was so loud that it was heard in London ...

A British soldier’s battered World War I diary recounting the bloody Battle of the Somme has been discovered in a U.K. barn. The diary, which was written in pencil by Private Arthur Edward Diggens of ...

Saturday July 1, 1916 was the bloodiest day in the British Army’s history with 19,240 soldiers killed and more than 38,000 wounded as the Battle of the Somme began. But that was not how the picture ...

Very successful attack this morning… All went like clockwork… The battle is going very well for us and already the Germans are surrendering freely … – Haig, on day one of the Somme: 19,000 British ...

The modern fascination with the Battle of the Somme has its roots in the casualties of both the first day and following months. These were unprecedented in British military history. The British lost ...

As the sun rose over the valley of the Somme River in northern France on the first of July a century ago, the soldiers of the British Empire began their charge on the entrenched Germans. It would be ...

You are in: Manchester > History > Remembrance > Memories of the Somme Pte. Andrews: survived the Somme 1st July, 1916: the bloodiest day in British military history. Here, Manchester Pal Albert ...

One hundred years ago today at 7.30am the sound of officers’ whistles signalled the dawn of the Battle of the Somme - one of the bloodiest clashes in history which left permanent scars and lead to a ...

A battered diary which was written by a young British soldier recounting the Battle of the Somme in chilling detail from the trenches has fetched £2,600 at auction. The historic journal was found ...

In the summer of 1916, a film was released in Britain that drew a larger audience than almost any other in history. It was shot in Northern France in June and July of that year by a team of two ...

Taylor Downing’s new Breakdown: the Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme, 1916 reveals a turning point for mental health. By Matthew Green Few units in the British army can have fared worse on 1 July ...