Memory BATTLE OF THE SOMMEVersion en ligne Relacionar imágenes y características de esta dura batalla de la primera guerra mundial par Aprende inglés con juegos The bombing had not destroyed the barbed wire The battle line stretched some 25 miles By the end of the first day 60,000 British soldiers were dead. British troops on their way to the Somme. 750,000 men were sent to the Battle of the Somme At 7.20 am 40,000 pounds of explosive was detonated under a German machine gun position at Beaumont Hamel. General Haig – the man who planned the Battle of the Somme Tanks were first used at the Battle of the Somme