A Ceremony of Remembrance has taken place in Dublin to mark the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Somme and recognising all of those who lost their lives in WWI and WWII.

What was the Battle of the Somme? Fought between July and November 1916, the Battle of the Somme was one of the defining events of the First World War and the largest battle on the western front. It ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Friday July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Somme, estimated to ...

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 ...

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Hundreds of people gathered early this morning to pay their respects to the 20,000 British soldiers who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme - 109 years ago today. They arrived at the huge ...

At exactly 7.30 in the morning, 100 years ago today, thousands of British soldiers went “over the top” towards enemy lines in the lowlands surrounding the French river Somme. They didn’t run forwards ...

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Full coverage of the commemorations marking 100 years since the Battle of the Somme The Battle of the Somme was fought between 1 July and 18 November 1916, with over a million British, French and ...

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, 30-year-old artist Scarlett Raven is launching an ambitious and groundbreaking visual arts experience, The Danger Tree. Raven is the ...

Thousands of fallen soldiers from the Battle of the Somme are being honoured in a new walkway of ceramic tiles in Manchester. Path of the Remembered at Heaton Park, where many of the region's soldiers ...