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Jul 1, 2016 · On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, more than 19,000 Brits were killed, with an additional 57,000 injured.
The Battle of the Somme. Began on 1 July 1916 and was fought along a 15-mile front near the River Somme in northern France. 19,240 British soldiers died on the first day - the bloodiest in the ...
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Jun 29, 2016 · 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.
Jul 1, 2016 · The centenary of the Battle of the Somme is being marked across Northern Ireland and in Thiepval in France, where thousands of Irishmen died. The opening day, 1 July 1916, remains the bloodiest...
Jun 16, 2016 · It was death on an industrial scale. There were 420,000 British casualties alone in the Battle of the Somme - the price paid for moving the front line just four and a half miles (7.2km).
May 14, 2019 · On July 1, 1916, the French and British jointly attacked the Germans in what would be 141 days of bloodshed in WWI's Battle of the Somme. It was one of the bloodiest battles in history. Out of 3 million soldiers, only 2 million made it out of the trenches.
The Somme department is in the current region of Hauts-de-France and is surrounded by the departments of Pas-de-Calais, Nord, Aisne, Oise and Seine-Maritime. In the northwest, it has a coast on the English Channel. The main rivers are the Somme and its tributaries (Avre, Ancre and Noye, the Authie) as well as the Bresle. Principal towns
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