On the first day of the Somme, the German 2nd Army suffered a severe defeat. It was the first World War One battle to see tanks brought to the battlefield. Despite a decisive victory, 57,470 ...

Canadian troops stand ready to repel a German attack on the trenches. One soldier keeps a look out using a periscope to see over edge of the trench. Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1.

WW1 diary reveals British and German soldiers made secret pacts to cut trench carnage An uncovered wartime journal from a Tommy showed a "gentleman's agreement" meant soldiers would signal to help ...

100 YEARS AGO, St. Eloi, Belgium — In the early hours of Feb. 28, 1915, No. 4 Company of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) launched a surprise raid on German trenches ...

Lt Alexander Pfeifer found the postcard on Pte Percy Walsh, from Blackburn, Lancashire, after the 22-year-old was killed as German forces recaptured a trench on 22 December 1914.

A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War One officer has led his descendant to bring a message sent to the trenches more than a century ago back to the family of a fallen British ...