Hundreds of silent ‘ghost soldiers’ dressed in World War One uniforms appeared at train stations across the country on Friday morning as part of a moving Somme anniversary gathering. Crowds of WW1 ...
July 1, 1916, marked the beginning of a nearly five-months-long fight on the banks of the Somme river in northern France. By the time the battle ended on Nov. 18, French, British and German forces had ...