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*Like most of the generation of young men who lost their lives in the Battle of the Somme, Irish-born Private Thomas Joyce arrived at the trenches with little knowledge of the outside world.

A fresh-faced boy who served in the 36th (Ulster) Division with the 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers, he could never have imagined the horrors that lay ahead. He was killed on this day 90 years ago, along with 21,391 other men - the highest number of casualties in British military history.

The soldiers who fought in the Somme are described as men but ...

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