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The detonation of the Hawthorn Ridge mine, under German lines.

British aerial recon of the German trenches on May 10, 1916.

On June 30, in an attempt to distract the Germans from the pending offensive at the Somme, three battalions from the Royal Sussex Regiment, following an intense artillery bombardment, succeeded in capturing the first two lines at the German defensive position at the “Boar’s Head” before running out of ammunition, halting before the German supply trench. 1,400 British soldiers were casualties, all from Sussex, England – dozens of brothers dead together.

Fighting at the Somme, July 1

British plan of attack on the first day of the Somme offensive. 60,000 soldiers fell, the greatest casualty rate for the British army at the time.

The Russian Caucasus army attacked the Ottomans at Erzincan earlier today as their offensive continues.

Bey and his men

The Turk general Ali İhsan Bey captured Kermanshah, in Iran, later that day. Meanwhile, the joint British-Arab forces are advancing on the Ottoman garrison at Taif.

A 60-pounder battery. They were heard in London, 165 miles away