Surrey Mirror published Local casualties in bloody Battle of the Somme

Today marks the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.For four and a half months, the British and French engaged the Germans in a bloody battle on an 18-mile front that resulted in more than one million men killed or wounded.This battle symbolised the horrors of the First World War and the futility of trench warfare.The joint Franco-British offensive was launched in order to relieve pressure on the French army, which had been suffering heavy losses at Verdun.It was preceded...

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