the following figures are 100% accurate. they are just British soldiers who died on just the 1st day of the battle of the somme.
19 240 killed
35 493 injured
2 152 went missing
585 were captured
the british lost, in total, 57 470 soldiers on the first day alone.
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in the first day the british army lost 20,000 men and had 40,000 casualties. by the end of the war Britain had 420,000 casualties
19,240
No, not day 1 of the war,... Day 1 of the Battle of the Somme where the British had something like 60 000 casualties in mounting a very ill concieved attack against the German trenches. A great many died moving to the British ! front line, never mind the German positions. They had been told the Artillery barrage would prevent the German defence: It was a lie !
Almost 4,000 Americans died in the first wave, mostly on Omaha Beach.
it was the somme (ww1)
The Battle of Somme began on July 1, 1916 and did not end until November 18,1916. It was fought on both sides of the River Somme and in the course of four months, there were more than a million casualties. It is considered one of the bloodiest wars of humanity.