Battle of the Somme
WWI trench carnage
The Battle of the Somme was a World War I offensive fought between July and November 1916 along the Somme River in northern France.
British and French forces attacked German positions in one of the war's bloodiest campaigns—over a million casualties on all sides.
The first day remains the deadliest in British military history.
The battle exemplifies the grinding attrition and futility of trench warfare: His grandfather died at the Somme.
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