Which for many people epitomizes, the tragedy of the First World War. However, verdun does not have the distinction. If you want to use that term as the bloodiest battle of the First World War. Instead, that distinction is at this place called the somme, which occurred in the same year of 1960. There was no strategic objective at the somme. Its a little river valley in northern france. The only reason the site was selected for major offensive is, as you can see down here at the its where the french lines and the british lines came together. And the idea was that both armies could attack together to break through the german lines in the open country and that cavalry charge that the were always talking about. Many of the soldiers who would be fighting at the somme, least in the british army, were those volunteers who had enlisted when the call to arms came in 1914, had seen kitchener appeal to them and for that reason were known kitcheners army. Not only were men induced to come, as you
Instead, that distinction is at this place called the somme, which occurred in the same year of 1960. There was no strategic objective at the somme. Its a little river valley in northern france. The only reason the site was selected for major offensive is, as you can see down here at the its where the french lines and the british lines came together. And the idea was that both armies could attack together to break through the german lines in the open country and that cavalry charge that the were always talking about. Many of the soldiers who would be fighting at the somme, least in the british army, were those volunteers who had enlisted when the call to arms came in 1914, had seen kitchener appeal to them and for that reason were known kitcheners army. Not only were men induced to come, as you saw those those posters of women wanting to induce to join up. But the british came up with yet another idea to appeal for volunteers. This was just before they decided to introduce conscription
Good afternoon. We had finished talking the battle of verdun last wednesday, which for many people epitomizes, the tragedy of the First World War. However, verdun does not have the distinction. If you want to use that term as the bloodiest battle of the First World War. Instead, that distinction is at this place called the somme, which occurred in the same year of 1960. There was no strategic objective at the somme. Its a little river valley in northern france. The only reason the site was selected for major offensive is, as you can see down here at the its where the french lines and the british lines came together. And the idea was that both armies could attack together to break through the german lines in the open country and that cavalry charge that the were always talking about. Many of the soldiers who would be fighting at the somme, least in the british army, were those volunteers who had enlisted when the call to arms came in 1914, had seen kitchener appeal to them and for that
Which occurred in the same year of 1960. There was no strategic objective at the somme. Its a little river valley in northern france. The only reason the site was selected for major offensive is, as you can see down here at the its where the french lines and the british lines came together. And the idea was that both armies could attack together to break through the german lines in the open country and that cavalry charge that the were always talking about. Many of the soldiers who would be fighting at the somme, least in the british army, were those volunteers who had enlisted when the call to arms came in 1914, had seen kitchener appeal to them and for that reason were known kitcheners army. Not only were men induced to come, as you saw those those posters of women wanting to induce to join up. But the british came up with yet another idea to appeal for volunteers. This was just before they decided to introduce conscription. The military draft. The idea was that you could get young m
At the somme. Its a little river valley in northern france. The only reason the site was selected for major offensive is, as you can see down here at the its where the french lines and the british lines came together. And the idea was that both armies could attack together to break through the german lines in the open country and that cavalry charge that the were always talking about. Many of the soldiers who would be fighting at the somme, least in the british army, were those volunteers who had enlisted when the call to arms came in 1914, had seen kitchener appeal to them and for that reason were known kitcheners army. Not only were men induced to come, as you saw those those posters of women wanting to induce to join up. But the british came up with yet another idea to appeal for volunteers. This was just before they decided to introduce conscription. The military draft. The idea was that you could get young men from the same village or town, from the same business or factory from t