Somme shrouds show first day death toll

Name: Somme shrouds show first day death toll
Uploaded: 2016-07-01T12:46:58.000Z
Duration: 52 s
Description: Some 19,240 figures have been laid out in a park in Exeter to represent the huge British death toll on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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Some 19,240 figures have been laid out in a park in Exeter to represent the huge death toll on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Each 12in (30cm) figure represents a British soldier who was killed at the start of one of the bloodiest battles of World War One.

England

1 July 2016