A First World War soldier identified by tartan pieces and a thistle brooch has been laid to rest 109 years after his death.

French Ambassador Philippe Bertoux ... foreign diplomats and military officers and the secretary general of the War Memorial laid wreaths to pay tribute to fallen soldiers of World War I.

He needed to weaken the French first. He planned to use ... was the bloodiest day of World War One for the British army. Where did it all go wrong? WW1: Has poetry distorted our view of the ...

I entered the French military zone as a war correspondent ... his frontier with the exception of Alsace-Lorraine. An American WWI soldier writes a letter while encased in a trench.

On the first day, the German Army suffered around 6,000 casualties - mostly at the hands of the French on the southern part of the Somme. The French, for their part, managed to take all their ...