The Battle of Somme started on July 1, 1916 near the Somme River in France. It was known to be the bloodiest battle in history. Corporal Adolf Hitler was injured during the war on November 18, 1916 by Shrapnel.
The Somme campaign in 1916 was the first great offensive of World War 1 for the British, and produced a more critical British attitude toward the war.
The Somme war was one of the war’s longest attritional campaigns, and remains a source of great historical controversy.
The British suffered around 420,000 casualties, French about 200,000 and German casualty numbers are controversial, but theirs estimated to about 465,000. In all there was around 1,000,085 casualties.
The Somme Battle was fought on the eastern front, the battle was between the British, French, and Germans.