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 ...

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 Battle of the Somme, of which 1st July was just the first, disastrous day, raged for another four months, and was vital not only in diverting German forces away from their assault on the ...

AM on November 11, 1918, the Armistice that put an end to the fighting of World War I came into effect. After over four years ...

Today marks 100 years since the first day of the Battle of the Somme ... to the British soldiers killed in the Somme, young men dressed in WW1 uniforms appeared at stations and in city centres ...

At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we lost the flower of a generation”. Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the ...

A memorial dedicated to a soldier who was fatally shot as he delivered a message during the First World War has been given ...

The British-commanded Fourth Army was involved in the battle, heralding the start of the Hundred Days offensive. General Sir Henry Rawlinson had learnt the lessons of the bloody Somme offensive ...

The "heroic courage and self-sacrifice" of Private James Miller during the Battle of Somme saved the lives of his comrades.

“I went at it again in the past few months to determine the facts based on the story I was told that my great uncle on my dad ...

He had rightly begun to question whether the tins of bully beef I was talking about would have been suitable for him. I ...

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 ...