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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

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