Use evidence from the three documents to write a paragraph addressing the question: who won the first day of the battle of the somme

Germany: they were able to hold their trench and kill British forces in once of the bloodiest days in war history.

Britain planned to quickly go "over the top" of their trench and take the German trench. However, Germany's defense was much stronger than anticipated leading to high levels of British death. Over 57,000 causalities occurred just on this one day of fighting.