The battle took place in northern France, along the upper reaches of the River Somme, in a morass of mud, shattered trees and barbed wire. In the early hours of dawn, the Allies completed a ...

Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Britain fell silent to mark the moment on 1 July 1916 when the battle began and ...

D-Day vet was told: 'You're the assault wave, you won't be coming back' AS his landing craft made its way to Juno beach, Alan King found himself surrounded by flames . . . and the heads ...

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

At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we lost the flower of a generation”. Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the ...

She acknowledges that it may seem like an insignificant detail in the story of the Somme, a grisly, months-long battle in France in which more than one million soldiers were killed, wounded or ...