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NEWS - Jahrestag der Schlacht an der Somme (zusammenstellung)
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This sun light's up a field of Poppies near York this morning as Britain prepares to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme tomorrow.
Seasonal weather, York, UK - 30 Jun 2016
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NEWS - David und Samantha Cameron nehmen an der Gedenkfeier teil zu der Schlacht an der Somme
30 June 2016.
British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) speaks with his wife Samantha as they wait for the start of a Service on the Eve of the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme at Westminster Abbey in London on June 30, 2016.
Westminster Abbey is holding a Service on the Eve of the Centenary on June 30 2016, and an Overnight Vigil ñ the first time the Abbey has been open all night for a vigil since peace vigils for the Cuban Missile Crisis over fifty years ago. The Abbey service and vigil are part of a programme of centenary events which includes vigils in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and at Thiepval, Northern France.
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Inside the graveyard at Thiepval, Somme where there will be an all night vigil 100 years after the Battle of the Somme with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry in attendance. The Battle of the Somme, a battle of the First World War, was fought by the armies of Britain and France against Germany. It began on the 1st of July, 1916. More than a million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The first day was the worst day in the history of the British army, which had c.57,470 casualties. Few British troops reached the German front line. At the end of the battle, British and French forces had penetrated 6 miles into German-occupied territory.
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NEWS - Jahrestag der Schlacht an der Somme (zusammenstellung)
Inside the graveyard at Thiepval, Somme where there will be an all night vigil 100 years after the Battle of the Somme with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry in attendance. The Battle of the Somme, a battle of the First World War, was fought by the armies of Britain and France against Germany. It began on the 1st of July, 1916. More than a million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The first day was the worst day in the history of the British army, which had c.57,470 casualties. Few British troops reached the German front line. At the end of the battle, British and French forces had penetrated 6 miles into German-occupied territory.
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NEWS - Jahrestag der Schlacht an der Somme (zusammenstellung)
Inside the graveyard at Thiepval, Somme where there will be an all night vigil 100 years after the Battle of the Somme with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry in attendance. The Battle of the Somme, a battle of the First World War, was fought by the armies of Britain and France against Germany. It began on the 1st of July, 1916. More than a million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The first day was the worst day in the history of the British army, which had c.57,470 casualties. Few British troops reached the German front line. At the end of the battle, British and French forces had penetrated 6 miles into German-occupied territory.
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NEWS - Jahrestag der Schlacht an der Somme (zusammenstellung)
Inside the graveyard at Thiepval, Somme where there will be an all night vigil 100 years after the Battle of the Somme with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry in attendance. The Battle of the Somme, a battle of the First World War, was fought by the armies of Britain and France against Germany. It began on the 1st of July, 1916. More than a million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The first day was the worst day in the history of the British army, which had c.57,470 casualties. Few British troops reached the German front line. At the end of the battle, British and French forces had penetrated 6 miles into German-occupied territory.
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Old photo, poppy and Australian flag on the Windmill ruins in Pozieres destroyed in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme during the First World War. Pozières, FRANCE - 26/04/2016//LOISONVINCENT_1652.065/Credit:Vincent Loison/SIPA/1604291835 (FOTO: DUKAS/SIPA) *** Local Caption *** 00753740
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The battlefield sites of WW1 in Flanders, the Somme, Verdun and the Argonne where thousands of men paid the ultimate price. Many were never found and still lie beneath the earth. 2014 is the centenary of the start of World War One, the Great War, the War
Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. German Military Cemetery at Rancourt ( Rancourt Soldatenfriedhof ). February 2014.There are only a few graves here from the early months of the war. Two thirds of the dead lying here are from the Battle of the Somme between July and November 1916. Most of the remainder are from the summer of 1918.In 1929 repairs were carried out following negotiations with the French Government and the mass graves were given a proper wall and planted with roses. Trees were planted and the cemetery was inaugurated on 17 September 1933.The problem of how to mark the names of the fallen had to wait until the end of the Second World War for a solution and eventually in 1972 the wooden crosses were replaced with crosses made from Belgian granite.There are two mass graves containing the remains of 7,492 soldiers of whom only 2,316 could be identified. © Brian Harris / eyevine. Contact eyevine for more information about using this image:
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The battlefield sites of WW1 in Flanders, the Somme, Verdun and the Argonne where thousands of men paid the ultimate price. Many were never found and still lie beneath the earth. 2014 is the centenary of the start of World War One, the Great War, the War
Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. German pillbox on Albert-Bapaume Road. February 2014.
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The battlefield sites of WW1 in Flanders, the Somme, Verdun and the Argonne where thousands of men paid the ultimate price. Many were never found and still lie beneath the earth. 2014 is the centenary of the start of World War One, the Great War, the War
Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery above Beaumony Hamel. February 2014
Photograph from ridge high above Beaumont-Hamel looking south. Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery is in the foregound, on the left is Frankfurt Trench CWGC Cemetery and slightly down in the valley on the River Ancre on the right is Ancre British CWGC Cemetery Beaumont-Hamel. On the ridge on the south side of the River Ancre on what was the German front line is the Thiepval Memorial which has over 72,000 names of British and South African Soldiers who have no known grave, their remains either still lie out on the battlefield under the farmers fields or buried in CWGC cemeteries on the Somme but not named. Beaumont-Hamel was captured in November 1916, in the Battle of the Ancre, and the graves in this cemetery are largely those of men who died at that time. The burials were carried out by the V Corps in the spring of 1917, after the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line. Waggon Road Cemetery (originally V Corps Cemetery No.10) contains 195 First World War burials (36 unidentified), 46 of them belonging to the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which attacked in the Ancre in both July and November 1916.The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.
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The battlefield sites of WW1 in Flanders, the Somme, Verdun and the Argonne where thousands of men paid the ultimate price. Many were never found and still lie beneath the earth. 2014 is the centenary of the start of World War One, the Great War, the War
Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Site of Australian Memorial at Pozieres Mill. February 2014. Looking north towards Mouquet Farm and Thiepval Memorial on horizon. The Australian Memorial marks the spot where three Australian Divisions finally captured the strategic highground of Hill 160 where a windmill once stood on the Albert to Baupaum Road on August 4th 1916 after over a month of fighting. It was here that they suffered their most severe losses in the Somme offensive.
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The battlefield sites of WW1 in Flanders, the Somme, Verdun and the Argonne where thousands of men paid the ultimate price. Many were never found and still lie beneath the earth. 2014 is the centenary of the start of World War One, the Great War, the War
Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Sheffield Memorial Park. February 2014. Seen Here: In memory of the Chorley Pals 'Y' Company.Sheffield Memorial Park on the Somme where there are many commemoration plaques and memorials to the 'Pals Brigades'; Groups of men who lived in the same street or worked together, signed up into the army together and died together as they attacked the fortified German positions at Serre on the northern flank of the Somme Battlefield. .Several of these battalions suffered heavy casualties during the Somme offensives of 1916. One of the most notable was the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment, better known as the Accrington Pals. The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by Pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley and Bradford.Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes.Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.
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Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. February 2014. Looking east, a line of trees follows the route of the advancing Britsh troops across the Somme Battlefield between Thiepval and Pozieres. © Brian Harris / eyevine. Contact eyevine for more information about using this image:
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Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Site of Lochnagar Crater at La Boiselle. February 2014. The Lochnagar Crater ( named after a nearby WW1 trench which was named by an officer after a mountain in Deeside near Balmoral in Scotland where many of the 7th Gordons, based in La Boiselle, were estate workers ) at La Boiselle, the largest crater on the Western Front, was created on the first day of the Somme offensive on 1st July 1916 at 7.28 in the moring by exploding a hugh mine of 60,000 Lbs of guncotton under the the German front line. The Crater was slowly being eroded until Richard Dunning purchased the crater in 1978 after reading about it in 'The Old Front Line' by John Masefield, so that it might be saved as a permanent memorial. Remains of both British and German Soldiers are still being found in the surrounding landscape and are buried in nearby cemeteries but marked at the Crater by crosses and Poppy Wreaths.
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British photographer Michael St Maur Shiel has spent the last few years taking poignant and evocative pictures of some of the most notorious battlefields of WW1 as they are today, nearly 100 years after the Great war. The pictures show beautiful landscapes that still show the scars of the conflict in which 10 million soldiers died.
Winter snow at Tyne Cot cemetery near Ypres - where 12,000 British & Commonwealth dead are buried.
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Beaumont Hamel British cemetery from Hawthorn ridge redout.
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The 'Iron harvest' of the Somme - Even today munitions from the conflict are still ploughed up by the farmers.
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Rich farmland on the Somme.
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Misty winter morning on the Somme - looking towards Lutyens Thiepval memorial.
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Somme River.
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The still pockmarked landscape of Beaumont Hamel on the Somme. Where the Newfoundland Regt were decimated by German machine guns.
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Tough Guy Challenge, Nettle Warrior XII, South Perton Farm, Jenny Walker Lane, Old Perton, South Staffordshire, Britain - 26 Jul 2009
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The Tough Guy Challenge - aka Nettle Warrior XII - has evolved into one of the world's safest but hardest mental and physical endurance events, an eight-mile cross country run and an arduous assault course, known as the 'killing fields'.
More than 7,000 competitors from every continent attempted this physically challenging and mentally demanding event, which takes place twice a year - Tough Guy in January and Nettle Warrior in July.
The summer version is essentially the same course as Tough Guy but with some extra obstacles.
Running the course involves risking barbed wire, cuts, scrapes, burns, dehydration, hypothermia in winter, electric shocks, sprains and twists.
Due to the risks involved St. John's Ambulance workers provide first aid and each competitor must sign a "death warrant" acknowledging the dangers of taking part so that no claims can be made in case of injury.
Out of those that successfully finished the course in Perton, Staffordshire, 25 were dressed as Liquorice Allsorts.
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Tough Guy Challenge, Nettle Warrior XII, South Perton Farm, Jenny Walker Lane, Old Perton, South Staffordshire, Britain - 26 Jul 2009
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TOUGH GUY RACE
The Tough Guy Challenge - aka Nettle Warrior XII - has evolved into one of the world's safest but hardest mental and physical endurance events, an eight-mile cross country run and an arduous assault course, known as the 'killing fields'.
More than 7,000 competitors from every continent attempted this physically challenging and mentally demanding event, which takes place twice a year - Tough Guy in January and Nettle Warrior in July.
The summer version is essentially the same course as Tough Guy but with some extra obstacles.
Running the course involves risking barbed wire, cuts, scrapes, burns, dehydration, hypothermia in winter, electric shocks, sprains and twists.
Due to the risks involved St. John's Ambulance workers provide first aid and each competitor must sign a "death warrant" acknowledging the dangers of taking part so that no claims can be made in case of injury.
Out of those that successfully finished the course in Perton, Staffordshire, 25 were dressed as Liquorice Allsorts.
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Tough Guy Challenge, Nettle Warrior XII, South Perton Farm, Jenny Walker Lane, Old Perton, South Staffordshire, Britain - 26 Jul 2009
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Tough Guy Race
TOUGH GUY RACE
The Tough Guy Challenge - aka Nettle Warrior XII - has evolved into one of the world's safest but hardest mental and physical endurance events, an eight-mile cross country run and an arduous assault course, known as the 'killing fields'.
More than 7,000 competitors from every continent attempted this physically challenging and mentally demanding event, which takes place twice a year - Tough Guy in January and Nettle Warrior in July.
The summer version is essentially the same course as Tough Guy but with some extra obstacles.
Running the course involves risking barbed wire, cuts, scrapes, burns, dehydration, hypothermia in winter, electric shocks, sprains and twists.
Due to the risks involved St. John's Ambulance workers provide first aid and each competitor must sign a "death warrant" acknowledging the dangers of taking part so that no claims can be made in case of injury.
Out of those that successfully finished the course in Perton, Staffordshire, 25 were dressed as Liquorice Allsorts.
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Tough Guy Challenge, Nettle Warrior XII, South Perton Farm, Jenny Walker Lane, Old Perton, South Staffordshire, Britain - 26 Jul 2009
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Tough Guy Race
TOUGH GUY RACE
The Tough Guy Challenge - aka Nettle Warrior XII - has evolved into one of the world's safest but hardest mental and physical endurance events, an eight-mile cross country run and an arduous assault course, known as the 'killing fields'.
More than 7,000 competitors from every continent attempted this physically challenging and mentally demanding event, which takes place twice a year - Tough Guy in January and Nettle Warrior in July.
The summer version is essentially the same course as Tough Guy but with some extra obstacles.
Running the course involves risking barbed wire, cuts, scrapes, burns, dehydration, hypothermia in winter, electric shocks, sprains and twists.
Due to the risks involved St. John's Ambulance workers provide first aid and each competitor must sign a "death warrant" acknowledging the dangers of taking part so that no claims can be made in case of injury.
Out of those that successfully finished the course in Perton, Staffordshire, 25 were dressed as Liquorice Allsorts.
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Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
Remembrance Day or Poppy Day has been observed since the end of the First World War to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In most countries, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of First World War hostilities.
Pictured: Poppies grow in the shadow of the Sword of Sacrifice which stands in Rancourt Military cemetery one of the many hundreds of Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries ( CWGC ) on the Somme battlefields of northern France.
2008
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Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
Remembrance Day or Poppy Day has been observed since the end of the First World War to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In most countries, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of First World War hostilities.
Pictured: Poppies grow in the shadow of the Sword of Sacrifice which stands in Rancourt Military cemetery one of the many hundreds of Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries ( CWGC ) on the Somme battlefields of northern France. The French Military cemetery at Rancourt is marked by the Church on the right.
2008
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Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
Remembrance Day or Poppy Day has been observed since the end of the First World War to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In most countries, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of First World War hostilities.
Pictured: Poppies grow on the Somme WW1 battlefields of Northern France at Rancourt on the Somme.
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Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
Remembrance Day or Poppy Day has been observed since the end of the First World War to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In most countries, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of First World War hostilities.
Pictured: Poppies grow in the shadow of the Sword of Sacrifice which stands in Rancourt Military cemetery one of the many hundreds of Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries ( CWGC ) on the Somme battlefields of northern France.
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Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
Remembrance Day or Poppy Day has been observed since the end of the First World War to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In most countries, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of First World War hostilities.
Pictured: Poppies grow in the shadow of the Sword of Sacrifice which stands in Rancourt Military cemetery one of the many hundreds of Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries ( CWGC ) on the Somme battlefields of northern France.
2008
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Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
Remembrance Day or Poppy Day has been observed since the end of the First World War to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In most countries, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of First World War hostilities.
Pictured: Somme Battlefield, France. Poppies on the Somme Battlefield at Rancourt.
Poppies grow in the shadow of the Sword of Sacrifice which stands in Rancourt Military cemetery one of the many hundreds of Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries ( CWGC ) on the Somme battlefields of northern France. An unexploded shell from WW1 is placed by the cemetery wall awaiting collection by French Army Bomb squad.
Rancourt was captured by the French on 24 September 1916, and remained in Allied hands until 24 March 1918 and the German advance. It was recaptured by the 47th (London) Division on 1 September 1918.
The cemetery was begun by units of the Guards Division in the winter of 1916-17, and used again by the burial officers of the 12th and 18th Divisions in September 1918. After the Armistice, six graves from the surrounding battlefields were brought into Row E.
Rancourt Military Cemetery contains 93 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 20 of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to one casualty known to be buried among them. There are also three Second World War burials in the cemetery.
The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the River Somme in France. It was one of the largest battles of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The main part of the offensive was to be made by the French Army, supported on the northern f
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