A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...

When war broke out in 1914, thousands of coal miners swapped shovels for rifles, believing life in the trenches might be ...

That attack 100 years ago was the long-awaited “Big Push”—the beginning of the Somme Offensive and the quest to crack open the Western Front of World War I. The Allied command hoped that a ...

The Battle of the Somme would go on to be recognised as one of the deadliest battles ever fought: Source: Imperial War Museum. The terrible casualty rate of the first day of the battle led to it ...

The Battle of the Somme lasted five months in 1916 and placed young men on both sides of the war in the middle of a protracted hell. Pictured here, Canadian soldiers returning from the trenches of ...

As the faint glimmer of dawn bounced off the waters of Gallipoli on April 15, 1915, Private Dick Clarke huddled in ...

Almost 2,000 soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division died on the first day of the Somme campaign. When it was withdrawn from the line, the division had won a reputation as courageous soldiers.

While making a crucial contribution to the war effort in April 1918, an Australian general and his men also managed to save a ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on ... Verdun and the Somme in more detail.

However, as the decades passed, the Somme veterans aged and a Second World War dominated public memory of local involvement in global strife. By the 1960s Northern Ireland was beginning to reach ...

the Lochnagar Crater was formed after an explosive-packed mine was detonated during the Battle of the Somme. Michael St. Maur Sheil The first large battle fought by American soldiers in World War ...

She finally reached the frontline Somme town of Albert and ... In 1919, once the war had ended, despite her ill health, Lawrence published Sapper Dorothy, an account of her experience in the ...