Figurines representing each of the 19,240 British soldiers who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have been laid out. The figurines, each clad in a hand-made calico shroud, mark the ...
On July 1, 1916, the first shots were fired in what would become one of the bloodiest engagements in human history, the 141-day Battle of the Somme. It was nearly two years into what was then being ...