Lest we forget....

1 July 2006 marks the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, one of history’s bloodiest battles. On the first day of that battle alone, Britain suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead — the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army. There were over 420,000 British and Commonwealth casualties by the end of the campaign in November 1916.
The Battle of the Somme was one of the costliest battles of the First World War on all sides. A German officer, Friedrich Steinbrecher, wrote:

Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word.

We must NEVER forget...
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