'The roar of the guns is incessant... the casualties are very heavy': WWI trench diary which describes how Tommies were 'cut to pieces' by the Germans on the disastrous first day of the Somme is found 108 years later
A World War One diary, written by a Lieutenant at the Battle of the Somme, has been found 108 years on and provides grim details on the battle's first day, which claimed 20,000 British lives.
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