On July 1, 1916, the British and French armies launched a major offensive against German lines in the Somme region of northern France. Over the ensuing five months, a brutal battle of attrition left ...

A hundred years ago on July 1, 1916, British and French forces launched an offensive on Germany’s army in the Somme region of northern France. While the date remains seared in the memories of the ...

On the morning of Saturday 1 July 1916, 100,000 "Tommies" went over the top and into the bloodiest day in British military history - over half of them becoming casualties by nightfall. The First World ...

July 1, 1916, marked the beginning of a nearly five-months-long fight on the banks of the Somme river in northern France. By the time the battle ended on Nov. 18, French, British and German forces had ...

For all France's rhetoric about supporting the small farmer, the authorities are bending legalities to push through the country's biggest dairy farm, writes Evan Jones. This reveals the 'socialist' ...

Thousands of people, including members of the Royal Family, have attended a ceremony in France to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke ...

They are a hidden maze of tunnels where a bloody underground war was played out in terrifying darkness and where the bodies of 28 heroes lie entombed forever. Now, after lying practically undisturbed ...

A minute's silence is held at the Ulster Memorial Tower in Thiepval, France. The centenary of the Battle of the Somme is being marked across Northern Ireland and in Thiepval in France, where thousands ...

World War I centenary commemorations of the Australian sacrifice on the Western Front were formally begun yesterday with two solemn wreath-laying ceremonies. One ceremony in Bailleul in northern ...

The Battle of the Somme was a British documentary and war propaganda film. It followed the exploits of the British Expeditionary Force in the preliminaries and early days of the Somme offensive, one ...