60,000 British Casualties

[eagleseven]

60,000 British casualties in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, July 1st, 1916.


Let us be mindful when we contemplate threads like this:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/92919-51-dead-in-september-55-so-far-this-month-8-of-the-55-just-today-in-one-attack.html

 

[Xenophon]

20,000 in the first 15 minutes of the battle.

 

[rightwinger]

Amazing the carnage that was WWI. They would just send them in waves over the top into enemy machine guns.

Thats why they called it the war to end all wars