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Battle of the Somme: British trenches in Thiepval Wood during the war. On 1 July 1916, at 7:28 am, this is the start of the Battle of the Somme and the beginning of a terrible carnage : 58,000 men killed or wounded in a single day. Four months later, the result is terrible: 1200000 men were put out of action, ifor a total of 3000000. It was the British, with about 420,000 dead, wounded, missing and prisoners on the only sector of the Somme, who pay the heaviest tribe to slaughter : 1st July 1916 was the worst day of their entire military history. There are 410 British cemeteries in the Somme. (This historic photo archive is not available for sale and only presented here to set the context).
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