The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One, as the Allied forces attempted to break through the German front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive ...

Most of the casualties fell in the first hundred metres of no-man’s land. The Battle of the Somme has been described as the graveyard of the various local battalions raised across Scotland in ...

the worst in British military history. Outdated military tactics such as slow, massive troop advances were no match for modern military weapons at the Battle of the Somme. Pictured here ...