On 1 July 1916, the British forces suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 fatalities. They gained just three square miles of territory. British and German troops faced each other's trenches ...

Defence Secretary John Healey further hints at UK sending troops to Ukraine for training mission - amid fears they could be ...

Casualties refers to dead ... They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster? documentWW1: Why was the first day of the Somme ...

The nine men were killed while fighting in the Battle of Passchendaele in October 1917 Nine British soldiers who died in World War One have been buried more than a century after their deaths.

Inevitably, casualties of the war needed to return home, which saw 77 UK ships requisitioned by the Royal Navy, including three of Newhaven’s passenger ferries. World War One historian Chris ...