In July, Battle of the Somme begins--57,000 British casualties from machine guns

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Category
War
Place
France
Date
1916
Reference
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"?Most of the casualties were men of Kitchener's New Armies--the volunteers who had answered his call in 1914… The New Armies were reinforced by men from South Africa, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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World War I
1914
1918
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