Millions were drafted into WWI. The military drafted York on June ... the soldiers later found themselves in a downpour of German machine gun fire from a nest that took out all their sergeants.

The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction ... In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this meant an average of 500 rounds a minute with a range of over 3,000 yards or 2,743m.

A miracle bible marked with bullet holes from a German machine gun helped save the life of a ... I am extremely thankful to the WW1 generation for all they did for us. It's hard to imagine what ...

They were confident of victory. But the British soldiers were unable to break through the German defences and were mown down in their thousands by machine gun and artillery fire. This day set a ...