75K views · 1K reactions | Two men whose grandfathers died together 100 years ago on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have met for the first time | Sky News | Facebook

The Battle of the Somme 1 July The wholesale slaughter of the working class... The offensive began at 7.30am on 1 July 1916. Many of the infantry who went over the top were volunteers of 1914, including Pals battalions made up of friends, relatives and workmates serving side by side. This was their first experience of a major action in the largest attack the British Army had yet conducted. A sea of thousands of contorted bodies wrapped in funereal shrouds laid out shoulder to shoulder to pay tri

A documentary about the Battle of the Somme was released just two months after the battle began. http://cnn.it/295oVe6 | CNN International