Memory Game BATTLE OF THE SOMMEOnline version Relacionar imágenes y características de esta dura batalla de la primera guerra mundial by Estibaliz Martinez By the end of the first day 60,000 British soldiers were dead. Tanks were first used at 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 The battle line stretched some 25 miles General Haig – the man who planned 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.