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IT was one of the bloodiest battles in British history and symbolised the horrors of warfare in the First World War – the Battle of the Somme. To mark the centenary since the start of the vic… ...

The Battle of the Somme was also known as the Somme Offensive (Picture: PA) The Allies’ original plan was for an attack on three European fronts in a bid to end years of sapping trench warfare.

The British suffered from almost 60,000 casualties on the first day of the battle. Of those, almost 20,000 soldiers died alongside 7,000 French and 8,000 German soldiers.

The Battle of the Somme would rage on, inconclusively, until November 18, dragging over a million men into its vortex of suffering and death.

On July 1, 1916, the cream of the British army went over the top on a 14-mile front along the Somme River in northern France. The Battle of the Somme was the largest military action undertaken in ...

The images, colourised by expert Tom Marshall, capture the daily life which rumbled on where the Somme's bloody battlefronts took place Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by ...

The images, colourised by expert Tom Marshall, capture the daily life which rumbled on where the Somme's bloody battlefronts took place ...