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Battle of the Somme 1916
This is the story of the first day of the Somme Offensive, 1 July 1916 - the single bloodiest day in British military history ...
The trenches systems were on every front of World War One. A front is a stretch of land where warring countries confront each other and engage in battle. Trenches were widespread on the Western ...
The trench stacked with more than 70,000 ... The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. About 100,000 Allied soldiers went "over the top" to face the German army in ...
The Battle of the Somme lasted five months in 1916 and placed young men on both sides of the war in the middle of a protracted hell. Pictured here, Canadian soldiers returning from the trenches of ...
“The infantry is the weapon we use to cover the last 300 metres: we train for urban and woodland warfare,” Melchior explains. “Trench warfare can be a mixture of these two, because you ...
Virtually all British footage from World War I trenches and battlefields was filmed ... came with a documentary called The Battle of the Somme, which lasts around 70 minutes.
Q: Did the training you got prepare you for trench warfare? Hare ... I says, "It's different to that where I've come from on the Somme." I said, "Well I'm in Bouverie, it's only half a mile ...
Then on April 22, 1915, old-fashioned warfare turned modern. In the late afternoon, a green cloud - poisonous chlorine gas - rose from the German trenches and moved slowly with the wind over the ...