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 ...

Ex-servicemen in Antigua think the contribution of Caribbean soldiers to WW1 has been overlooked Ask ... In October 1915, the British West Indies Regiment (BWIR) was formed. Two-thirds of its ...

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 ...

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British soldiers have fired a new artillery gun for the first time on a tactical exercise in Finland. Soldiers from the 19th Regiment Royal Artillery are currently in Lapland as part of Exercise ...