Battles of the Somme
In July 1916, the British and French armies launched an offensive near the River Somme in northern France. The Battles of the Somme would form one of the bloodiest and most important campaigns of the First World War.
Men from every part of Britain and across the British Empire took part in the offensive, which lasted nearly five months. Both sides committed huge quantities of manpower and munitions to the struggle. When the offensive was halted in November 1916, the forces of the British Empire had suffered some 420,000 wounded, captured, or killed.
Second Lieutenant Philip Newbold, 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment
Major Cedric Charles Dickens - Grandson of the author Charles Dickens
Corporal Alan Richard Leatherdale, ‘…one of the truest and bravest chums…’
2nd Lt. Henry S Teed, 1st/4th Bn., Royal Berkshire Rgt - Artist Known for Depicting the Life and Beauty of the Thames
Rifleman Horace Raymond Waterman - A Talented Young Painter
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