the Battle of the Somme was starting. In the midst of it, the 12,000 or so men of the 36th Ulster Division. By the end of Sunday, more than 5,000 would be casualties of the battle. Around 2,000 ...

Men went over the top and into gunfire—20,000 died on day one. The Somme wasn’t a battle, it was a machine that swallowed a generation.

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).

This includes 23,000 ANZACS who fought with distinction near Poizières and Mouquet Farm – more than died in the entire ... less than 30 years after the Battle of the Somme, the disconnect ...

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 countryside in northern France ...

19,240 of them died that first day of the battle of the Somme; the worst day of the worst battle in human history. By its end, 140 days later, one million would have died, been lost, or wounded in ...

The Battle of the Somme was the largest military action undertaken in British history, a five-month clash that would eventually claim 420,000 British casualties that included 170,000 deaths.

In the four-month Battle of the Somme in 1916 some 125,000 British soldiers ... Cummings’s claim that "tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die", though this has long been ...

The News Letter does carry an update on casualties, reporting on a number ... and online to paint a vivid picture of The Battle of the Somme. You can follow @BBCVoices16 for daily updates on ...

brave British troops advanced but more than 400,000 died and 1.3 million were injured in the First World War battle. The 100th anniversary of the final day of the Battle of the Somme took place in ...