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 ...

Thousands of Australians also fought and died in the Somme, fighting for the British Empire. Vigils have been held in Northern France and the U-K ahead of the battle's Centenary. The Royal family ...

The Duke of Cambridge and the prime minister have attended commemorations in northern France to mark the centenary of the Battle of Amiens ... lessons of the bloody Somme offensive and employed ...

Ireland and the Somme How a battle united an island divided WW1: Irish nationalist soldiers commemorated in France Great War: Ulster soldiers commemorated in Belgium Mr Finucane said that his ...

Belfast, 2 July 1918 - The second anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme was solemnly marked in Belfast and across the province of Ulster. On 1 July 1916, the first day of the ...