This video explores the Battle of the Somme, one of the deadliest clashes of World War I. Fought in 1916, it became a symbol ...

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

The four-month–long battle of the Somme epitomized the futile bloodletting on the western front, with 19,000 advancing British soldiers killed by the Germans on the very first day. From the ...

Dan Snow looks at the impact of the Battle of the Somme on the Sheffield pals battalion.

He was at Vimy Ridge, he was at the Somme, he was at Passchendaele ... on a bicycle. He saw the worst,' says family member of ...