This video explores the Battle of the Somme, one of the deadliest clashes of World War I. Fought in 1916, it became a symbol ...

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 ...

THIEPVAL, France (AP) — A 100-year-old trench, its edges now smoothed over by verdant overgrowth, snakes through a French meadow. Craters carved by bombs in the Battle of the Somme still pock the ...

A British soldier’s battered World War I diary recounting the bloody Battle of the Somme has been discovered in a U.K. barn. The diary, which was written in pencil by Private Arthur Edward Diggens of ...

Friday July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Somme, estimated to be the bloodiest in World War I, lasted for five months. The first day of the battle was the ...

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 ...

It's one of the most famous mines that the British detonated during the whole of the First World War. But the explosion at Hawthorn Ridge on July 1, 1916 was a 'colossal blunder' that led to the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BELLOY-EN-SANTERRE, FRANCE — In the end, Alan Seeger’s bones could no longer be distinguished from those of his Foreign Legion comrades who had fallen ...

When we talk about war history and what the estimated casualties may or may not have been in certain battles, I think it wise to remember the World War I Battle of the Somme in France beginning July 1 ...

This flag flew above the base camp of the 36th Ulster Division, and still bears the scars of artillery fire. See more objects from the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising on BBC Voices 16, ...