When discussing the Battle of the Somme, many people end with the first day, however there were another two main phases of the battle before it finally ended in November 1916. The second phase ...

Live coverage, video and text updates of the World War One centenary coverage from across the BBC marking 100 years since the Battle of the Somme ...

Many French soldiers died alongside their British allies at the bloody Battle of the Somme, but the conflict is overshadowed in France by Verdun, says Hugh Schofield.

Figurines representing each of the 19,240 British soldiers who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have been laid out. The figurines, each clad in a hand-made calico shroud, mark the ...

The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front Pegasus By Peter Hart Hart combines research and oral history to tell the stories of what it was really like inside the trenches along the ...

The Somme was the most murderous single battle of the 1914-18 war. In a little less than five months, an estimated 1,200,000 British Empire, French and German soldiers were killed, captured or ...

Long lost WWI sketchbook reveals Tommy's view of life in the trenches in the year of the Battle of the Somme By HARRY HOWARD, HISTORY EDITOR Published: 07:28 EDT, 16 July 2025 | Updated: 07:32 EDT ...

Pvt Key died as his regiment led the first charges of the Somme on July 1st, 1916. Just after 7.30am over 600 men went over the top to be mown down by enemy gunfire with the 1/8th virtually wiped ...

It will take another five centuries to clear the Somme battlefields before the area is safe, bomb disposal experts warned on Thursday after collecting 25 tons of munitions this year alone.

READ MORE: Battle of the Somme 100th anniversary marked with colour photographs of bloody battlefields For more than 19,000 British men, July 1, 1916, was their last day on earth.