The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916. The main aim of the battle was to relieve the important northern French fortress of Verdun. This had been placed under siege by the German Army ...

Using new and emerging technologies and working with botanists and scholars beyond the university, U of T librarians, ...

AS Armistice Day approaches, EMMA CLAYTON looks back to the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, when she visited a French village where ...

Harold Wrong plucked a flower from the fields of Somme, France on June 30, 1916 and tucked it into a letter he mailed home to ...

The Battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916 and remains the bloodiest in the Army's history. A total of 19,240 British troops were killed within 24 hours. Almost a tenth of those who died that ...

Nearly 20,000 British troops were killed on a single day at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 A total of 19,240 British troops were killed within 24 hours at the start of the battle, on what was the ...

A memorial dedicated to a soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for giving his life in the First World War has been listed as Grade II ...

This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest ... myths lies the story of an elaborately-planned battle, fought against a determined and experienced ...

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 ...

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 ...