AS Armistice Day approaches, EMMA CLAYTON looks back to the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, when she visited a French village where ...
Using new and emerging technologies and working with botanists and scholars beyond the university, U of T librarians, ...
As we approach Remembrance Day on November 11, Sebastian Faulks’s epic tale of love and loss set during the first world war Birdsong dominates the Chichester Festival Theatre for the best part of ...
The next day, Wrong was dead. He was last seen going over the top of a trench with a wounded arm and killed on the first day ...
Two coastguards were joined by many of their crew to honour the lives of their fallen family on Remembrance Sunday.
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 ...
“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 ...
I came across Brady's memoir , which was never published, in the archives of the Imperial War Museums (IWM) as part of a ...
Daniel McAlpine, a private in the Highland Light Infantry, was sheltering in a tunnel under the Somme village of Bouzincourt, France, when he pencilled his name, service number, unit, home town of ...
Section Commander, Corporal Walter Lawrence, said his great grandfather, Lawrence Howard Lawrence, fought during the Battle of the Somme with the 31st battery, 8th Field Artillery Brigade.
Despite their recent problems on the pitch, former Leyton Orient striker, Peter Kitchen, is looking forward to Leyton ...
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Battle of the Somme 1916
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 ...