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more ghastly word. Thought the presentation & interpretation made the subject accessible". The conflict began with a heavy pour of gunfire. Corps Commander: General Antoine de Mitry, Report of the Battles of the Somme: Nomenclature Committee as approved by Army Council, Cmnd 1138, London. Detonation of Hawthorne Ridge mine, 1 July 1916, The 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade advance towards La Boisselle, 1 July 1916. Combles, Morval, Lesboeufs and Gueudecourt were captured and a small number of tanks joined in the battle later in the afternoon. The Royal British Legion and the CWGC remember the battle on 1 July each year at Thiepval Memorial. Order of battle for the Battle of the Somme - Wikipedia He may be referring to the paper which Churchill distributed in August 1916, rather than the fuller numbers later presented in, On the French historiography see Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century, William Philpott (2009) and, Operations on the Ancre, JanuaryMarch 1917, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, List of Canadian battles during the First World War, List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Somme, Order of battle for the Battle of the Somme, "The Somme 1916 - From Both Sides of the Wire", "Verdun: France's sacred symbol of healing", "Was bloody Somme a success for the British? . The Battle of the Somme (1 July - 18 November 1916) was a joint operation between British and French forces intended to achieve a decisive victory over the Germans on the Western Front. It is chiefly remembered for the 57,470 casualties suffered by the British Army on the first day. German artillery was organised in a series of Sperrfeuerstreifen (barrage sectors); each officer was expected to know the batteries covering his section of the front line and the batteries ready to engage fleeting targets. Popular Culture 11 Objects from the Battle of the Somme | Imperial War Museums The combined attack was also intended to deprive the German defenders further west, near Thiepval of reinforcements, before an attack by the Reserve Army, due on 26 September.
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