We'll talk about the Battle of the Somme, s-o-m-m-e. And the Battle of the Somme, in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the first of July, 1916, there were 20,000 British soldiers killed.

我们会谈到索姆河战役,s-o-m-m-e,在索姆河战役,开战的头一天,1916年七月一号,20000英军士兵阵亡

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He returned home for hospital treatment after being wounded in the battle of the Somme in 1916 but recovered sufficiently to qualify again for service overseas.

ECONOMIST: Bertie Felstead

Above all we remember the catastrophic battles -- in the attack on the Somme in 1916 the British army walked forward in broad daylight toward entrenched German machine guns and suffered nearly 60, 000 casualties in one day.

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Many of those UVF men joined the 36th Ulster Division of the British Army and died in large numbers during the battle of the Somme in July 1916.

BBC: UVF flag