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 ...

Why the Battle of the Somme was so significant How the First World War began The most moving First World War poems The unbelievably horrific conditions and sheer number of dead make the Somme one ...

Veterans have been campaigning for those who died during the First and Second World Wars to be added to memorials.

EXCLUSIVE: RAF veteran John Nichol reveals how the story of an anonymous fallen serviceman inspired his new book.

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One, as the Allied forces attempted to break through the German front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive ...

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) highlights that all World War One medals were sent to the ... BBC News NI looks at the numbers behind the Battle of the Somme Due to the passing of time and the ...

Thousands of soldiers from across Ireland took part in the First World War battle in France ... killed on a single day at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 A total of 19,240 British troops were ...

British and Commonwealth soldiers who died fighting in the First World War have no known grave. John Nichol, former Gulf ...

However, as the decades passed, the Somme veterans aged and a Second World War dominated public memory of local involvement in global strife. By the 1960s Northern Ireland was beginning to reach ...

World War I was the first major war to be fought in ... And in early summer, during their tragic and misbegotten Somme offensive, tanks rolled onto the battlefield for the first time—to little ...

By the autumn of 1939, the world was once again at war. Walter Hare, who had fought so valiantly on the Somme twenty years earlier, again wondered what cause his pals had died for then -- and what ...

Almost 2,000 soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division died on the first day of the Somme campaign. When it was withdrawn from ...