Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

British soldiers read a map in the trenches of the ... Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. While much of a soldier’s life at the front line was characterised by boredom and not ...

So two came back and one died." Another GAA player who fought on the Western Front was former RIC man Dan Hegarty, who joined the Irish Guards and survived bronchitis and being shot in the leg to ...