• Killowen lodge holds a Battle of the Somme commemoration parade in Coleraine on an annual basis.

    BBC: Orange order memorial damaged in Coleraine

  • His name appears on the Thiepval memorial on the Somme along with 75, 000 others.

    BBC: Private John Murray

  • He died on 7 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme when he was in his mid 20s.

    BBC: Nephew traced in WWI postcard mystery

  • He has taken part in a commemoration service for those killed during the First World War's Battle of the Somme.

    BBC: Alex Maskey was elected to the top council post in June

  • Pte Wolstencroft returned to France after leaving Shepreth, where he died on 7 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.

    BBC: Nurses and patients from Shepreth hospital

  • Relatively primitive trench warfare on the Confederacy's northern front in Virginia presaged the slaughter of trench warfare on the Somme and at Passchendaele.

    ECONOMIST: Military history

  • Mr Mather, 74, read a letter in the Lancashire Evening Post from Rita Finley, whose husband's grand-father died in the Battle of the Somme.

    BBC: Preston Pals war memorial unveiled at Preston station

  • Tull enlisted in the army in 1914, rose to become a 2nd Lieutenant and died in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918.

    BBC: Play celebrates life of ground-breaking footballer

  • However, it has only been in the past nine years that the Orangemen's annual Battle of the Somme commemoration service has made headlines around the world.

    BBC: Drumcree: The leaked plan

  • He laid a laurel wreath at the cenotaph in memory "of those lost a the Battle of the Somme, on behalf of the government of Ireland".

    BBC: Wreaths in Belfast

  • 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

  • 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

  • More than a million soldiers from the British Empire, France and Germany were killed in the battle of the Somme, which took place between July and November 1916.

    BBC: New battle of the Somme looms

  • He said he was laying the wreath in memory of, and in tribute to, all men who died at the Somme and during all of the First World War.

    BBC: Maskey marks Somme with wreath

  • Former miner Pte Murray, of the 16th Battalion Welch Regiment, enlisted in 1914 and was killed in action at Mametz Wood at the Somme two years later aged 19.

    BBC: Private John Murray

  • Walter Tull, one of the first black footballers to play in England, led men in Italy during the war and was killed at aged 29 on the Somme in 1918.

    BBC: Northampton council could join Walter Tull medal campaign

  • The international-level register, which features items of global significance, includes items from the UK such as 1215 Magna Carta, the Mappa Mundi and the film The Battle of the Somme.

    UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: New Inscriptions to UK Memory of the World Register announced

  • In January this year, the council passed a resolution inviting the Irish government to participate in events to mark both the anniversary of Battle of the Somme and Remembrance Sunday.

    BBC: Wreaths in Belfast

  • Schools will be encouraged to take groups to battlefields - such as the Somme, Verdun and Fromelles - and take part in remembrance ceremonies on the Western front, say officials.

    BBC: ?5m pledge for school World War I battlefields trips

  • One source indicated that there are proposals, including an Alliance request to the Department of Culture, that the union flag fly on 1 July to mark the Battle of the Somme.

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • On 1 July, the Irish Minister for Transport, Alan Kelly, became the first member of the Republic's government to take part in the annual Somme commemorations at Belfast City Hall.

    BBC: Wreaths in Belfast

  • The Star of David accordion band led the marchers through the country lanes and they filed into the church for an hour-long service to commemorate the First World War Battle of the Somme.

    BBC: Drumcree's hill of 'uneasy calm'

  • Exciting youngsters like Paul Slane, Ross Forbes and Jamie Murphy will relish the lush new playing surface at Fir Park (how will the Scottish media survive without their tiresome Battle of the Somme patter?).

    BBC: Motherwell: season preview

  • 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.

    WSJ: Goodbye to All That

  • She said that her party had already written to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to request that 1 July, the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, be added to the list of designated days.

    BBC: British Legion rejects Belfast cenotaph flags proposal

  • Capt Lloyd, a vicar's son from the Powys village of Aberedw, served in the Welch Regiment during the early years of WWI, but he was wounded leading an attack at Mametz during the first Battle of the Somme on 7 July 1916.

    BBC: World War I secret documents found in Powys house clearance

  • Only one and a half hours from London by Eurostar, this friendly city is a popular weekend break for Brits, and it is a great location for onward travel to the Somme battlefields, the gothic spires of Amiens or the chocolate-filled streets of Belgium.

    BBC: The best French border towns

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定