The Somme: ‘we hope to do great things …’ At 7.30am on 1 July 1916 an uncanny silence fell across the Somme battlefield. To the men waiting to go over the top, it felt like a surreal anticlimax. Lieutenant Asquith paced along the trench, telling his men, ‘It’s a walk over.’ The illusion did not last. Within moments, the quiet was shattered. The battlefield erupted into chaos. By nightfall, the British Army had suffered approximately 57,500 casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
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The Somme: ‘we hope to do great things …’ At 7.30am on 1 July 1916 an uncanny silence fell across the Somme battlefield. To the men waiting to go over the top, it felt like a
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