Úna 🇮🇪☘️ on Instagram: "The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War (1914-18). The opening day of the attack, 1 July 1916, saw the British Army sustain 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in its history. The campaign finally ended in mid-November after an agonising five-month struggle that failed to secure a breakthrough. Dr. Charles Dickson returns to the site of the Battle of Somme where he recalls the horrors he witnessed 50 years earlier #w