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 ...

Thames Valley Police said it supported the Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team The Army has carried out a controlled explosion of a World War One artillery shell. Thames Valley Police said ...

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 ...