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 Henry Blythe King Allpass, 4th Bn, Essex Regt. attd. 1st Bn, Cambridgeshire Regt.
Private Alexander Kinmond 42679, 10th Bn., Durham Light Infantry
Second Lieutenant Christopher Pratt, 5th Bn., Cameron Highlanders - Died in attack on Snag Trench
Second Lieutenant William Arthur Burrows, 3rd Bn., London Regt (Royal Fusiliers) - School teacher, Father of two
Private Edwin Henry Rice G/4873, 1st Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regt.) - Boxer and father of six
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