The Battle of the Somme was an Allied offensive against the German forces on the Western Front, and took place between 1st July and 18th November 2016, on both sides of the river Somme in Northern France.
On the first day of the battle, the British Army suffered terrible loses, with 57,470 casualties, and 19,240 killed, making it the worst day in British military history.
By the end of it in November 1916, more than 3 million men had fought in the Battle of the Somme, with 1 million men wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in human history. Three times as many British forces died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme than have been killed in every combat operation since the end of WWII.
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