The British generals staged a massive artillery bombardment and sent 100,000 men over the top to take the German trenches. They were confident of victory. But the British soldiers were unable to ...

A British artillery field gun from World War One. British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the ...

On 1st July 1916, 21,000 British men were killed on the first day of the Battle ... it can be surmised that after artillery shells, machine guns counted for the second largest number of deaths. As ...

there [were] numerous WW1 and WW2 guns, grenades and artillery tips..." Warwickshire Police confirmed magnet fishers made the find and said the 18-pound British shell was taken back to its Leek ...

Staff were evacuated from the area on Thursday and the bomb squad arrived to remove the live "British WW1 fuse" and blow ... item was a fuse section from an artillery shell, which appeared to ...

Pattern 1822 Volunteer Artillery Officers Sword and Scabbard. Steel three bar hilt and back strap with a wire bound fishskin grip. A brown woven leather sword knot is attached to the slot on the hilt ...