International ceremonies are being held today to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme's final day. Around 2,000 guests will gather in the northern French village of Thiepval, which has been ...

A detailed look at the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, one of the deadliest military operations of World War I.

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 ...

This year will mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles in military history. In 1916, Allied forces made a "big push" to break German lines, but were met with fierce ...

Today, July 1 is the 100 th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. As I have written this week, there is no single battle in modern British history that has made a greater impression ...

As the sun rose over the valley of the Somme River in northern France on the first of July a century ago, the soldiers of the British Empire began their charge on the entrenched Germans. It would be ...

One hundred years ago today, the greatest battle of the First World War began — the Battle of the Somme. Hope died that day, and the modern age began. The River Somme wanders through bucolic ...

Railway Hollow Cemetery, the site of 107 burials Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE Point 110 Cemetery, with a Cross of Sacrifice at its entrance Simon Norfolk / INSTITUTE France has some 280 burial grounds ...

Overnight in London, an honor guard stood vigil at the grave of the Unknown Warrior. On Friday morning, across Great Britain, citizens observed a moment of silence. And midday Friday, at a quiet field ...

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 ...

Jamie Pringle receives funding from the HLF, the Nuffield Foundation, Royal Society, NERC, EPSRC and EU Horizon2020. He is affiliated with the Geological Society of London. Jamie works for Keele ...