Title: What happened during World War One? - CBBC Newsround
Headings: What happened during World War One?
What happened during World War One?
Divided
Causes of the war
Battle of the Somme
Numbers of soldiers from the British Empire who served during WWI:
The role of women
Animals
How did the war end?
'Peace babies'

Content: Ricky looks into the tactics used during WW1
Numbers of soldiers from the British Empire who served during WWI: British 5,000 000
Canada 628,964
Australia 412,953
NZ 128,825
SA 136,070
India 1,440 437
Other colonies 134,837
Taken from 'The Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War 1914-1920
This battle was an example of trench warfare, where long ditches or 'trenches' were dug in the ground. Soldiers lived in the trenches and sometimes they climbed out of them to attack. The land between the opposing trenches which soldiers had to cross was called 'No Man's Land'. The Battle of the Somme was a very bloody battle. In total, around one million soldiers were killed, wounded or missing: 420,000 from Britain, 200,000 from France and 500,000 from Germany. A total of 65 million troops from around the world fought in the war. This included the British army, which was made up of around 4 million men from England, 558,000 men from Scotland, 273,000 men from Wales and 134,000 men from Ireland. Just under 1 million British troops died.