On 1 July 1916, the British forces suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 fatalities. They gained just three square miles of territory. British and German troops faced each other's trenches ...

The previously unmarked grave of an Edinburgh man of the 1st (Royal) Dragoons has now been identified and marked more than a ...

The war’s high number of casualties - nearly 7.8 million Allied and Central Powers troops killed and nearly 19 million wounded - can be attributed to a number of factors, including the scale of ...

The horrible stalemate of the preceeding years, in which the two sides traded millions of casualties over a few yards of mud, came to an end. The toll would remain frightful, but the stalemate ...

In this battle the British used gas for the first time (it drifted back into their own lines) and suffered 60,000 casualties, mostly in the first 24 hours. The Lone Tree flowered again after 1918." ...

Some examples: Unrestricted use of chemical agents caused 1 million of the 26 million casualties suffered by all sides in WWI. It started with the French and British use of tear gas, but soon ...

In 1916, Austro-Hungarian soldiers who engaged in fierce battles during WWI in the Slovenian Alps faced massive casualties. To honour their fallen comrades, fellow soldiers erected an Art Nouveau ...