This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history ...

That attack 100 years ago was the long-awaited “Big Push”—the beginning of the Somme Offensive and the ... France suffered no fewer than 90,000 casualties—and the assault continued for ...

The Battle of the Somme was, the Allies hoped ... from the same small community in Ulster and which sustained 5.500 casualties on the first day, with nearly 2,000 soldiers from the counties ...

Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties ... as with the Somme, the Germans knew an attack was imminent and the initial ...

The battle saw more than one million men killed and wounded on all sides. Somme, one of World War ... with the British suffering almost 60,000 casualties on the first day alone.

The 1st July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. 60,000 men became casualties on that one day alone. In this major new ...

The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916 ... The majority of divisions suffered heavy casualties with the overall figure of wounded or dead standing at nearly 58,000.