Hundreds of people gathered early this morning to pay their respects to the 20,000 British soldiers who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme - 109 years ago today. They arrived at the huge ...

All wars end; even this war will some day end. . . . When the trenches are filled in, and the plough has gone over them, the ground will not long keep the look of war. — John Masefield. “The Old Front ...

The Lochnagar Crater is a deep hole caused by the detonation of a huge mine, planted by tunnellers in July 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. It was used as a temporary resting place ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “All wars end; even this war will some day end, and . . . When the trenches are filled in, and the plough has gone over them, the ground will not long keep ...