Memory BATTLE OF THE SOMMEVersión en línea Relacionar imágenes y características de esta dura batalla de la primera guerra mundial por Estibaliz Martinez The battle line stretched some 25 miles 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 British troops on their way to the Somme. 750,000 men were sent to the Battle of the Somme The bombing had not destroyed the barbed wire By the end of the first day 60,000 British soldiers were dead. Tanks were first used at the Battle of the Somme