This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history. 57,000 British soldiers became casualties, most within a few hours of the ...

Today marks 100 years since the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day of the First World War – and in British military history. And this morning, commuters across the UK came ...

An artwork commemorating the 300 Barnsley men who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme has been reinstalled after it was vandalised. Light Lines features images of soldiers who died in ...

Most of the casualties fell in the first hundred metres of no-man’s land. The Battle of the Somme has been described as the graveyard of the various local battalions raised across Scotland in ...