Sentence examples for somme from inspiring English sources

Sinn Féin has previously boycotted November's remembrance events in Northern Ireland owing to the association with the British military, although past mayors have laid wreaths at the city hall cenotaph to mark the 1 July anniversary of the battle of the Somme.

The Battalion lost more than 1,000 men during the war, many in the Battle of the Somme.

Perhaps 8.5m people died, against 60m in 1939-45; but more than 1m of these were from the British Empire, nearly double the total for the second war, and more than 5% of the force was lost on one day, July 1st 1916, the opening of the battle of the Somme.

It began at 7.30 on the morning of Saturday, June 30th, on the section of the British line some six miles in length in front of Albert south of the Ancre and north of the Somme.

No rulers or their military staffs imagined the Somme.

WHEN Albert Marshall was asked about the first world war, he sometimes thought it odd that so much was made of the Somme.

The Great War: July 1 , 1916 TheFirst Day of the Battle of the Somme.

But so were the charge of the Light Brigade and the battle of the Somme.

A potential Somme, barely begun.

First Battle of the Somme, (July 1 Nov. 13 , 1916, costly and largely unsuccessful Allied offensive on the Western Front during World War I.

To relieve the pressure on France, the Russians made a sacrificial attack on the Eastern Front at Lake Naroch (see below The Eastern Front, 1916); the Italians began their fifth offensive on the Isonzo (see above Italy and the Italian front, 1915 16); and the British took over the Arras sector of the Western Front, thus becoming responsible for the whole line from the Yser southward to the Somme.