During the recovery of bodies following the Battle of Marne in France in 1914, his pipes were accidentally set off, alerting ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most devastating battles in history, with over one million casualties in just five months. Intended to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the offensive ...

Verdun was one of the most savagely fought battles of World War One. The Germans fired two million shells in the opening eight-hour bombardment, and tens of millions were fired over the course of ...

He was barely 17 years old and he lied about his age. He had his baptism of fire at the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916. The British prepared for the battle with a massive bombardment of ...

The battle saw more than one million men killed and wounded on all sides. Somme, one of World War One's bloodiest, was fought in northern France and lasted five months, with the British suffering ...

Crew members Sailors from Ice Patrol HMS Protector, A173, and their Chilean allies paid homage to British sailors lost in one of the first great naval actions of World War 1.

Today marks 100 years since the first day of the Battle of the Somme ... young men dressed in WW1 uniforms appeared at stations and in city centres all over the country. In towns and cities ...