The Somme

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    Historic WWI Photograph – The Somme, 1916

    September 22, 2011 by Dan Black
    A sergeant leads his mud-spattered men out of the line on the Somme, October 1916. PHOTO: WILLIAM IVOR CASTLE, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES...
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    Slaughter On The Somme

    July 1, 2011 by John Boileau
    On July 1, 1916, a largely volunteer British army attacked a well-trained and well-entrenched German force. It was the blackest day in British military history. By its end, more casualties had been suffered than any day before or since—a shocking 30,000 in the first hour,...