Figurines representing each of the 19,240 British soldiers who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have been laid out. The figurines, each clad in a hand-made calico shroud, mark the ...
On July 1, 1916, the first shots were fired in what would become one of the bloodiest engagements in human history, the 141-day Battle of the Somme. It was nearly two years into what was then being ...
July 1, 1916—the first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in British military history. Over 57,000 soldiers were lost in mere hours, in a battle that was both a disaster and a ...
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