The British generals staged a massive artillery bombardment and sent 100,000 men over the top to take the German trenches. They were confident of victory. But the British soldiers were unable to ...

A British artillery field gun from World War One. British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the ...

there [were] numerous WW1 and WW2 guns, grenades and artillery tips..." Warwickshire Police confirmed magnet fishers made the find and said the 18-pound British shell was taken back to its Leek ...

Staff were evacuated from the area on Thursday and the bomb squad arrived to remove the live "British WW1 fuse" and blow ... item was a fuse section from an artillery shell, which appeared to ...