The Attack on the Gommecourt Salient was a British operation against the northern flank of the German 2nd Army. The attack took place on 1 July 1916, on...
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Thomas Snow (British Army officer) (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
VII Corps at the unsuccessful diversion of the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the first day on the Somme (1 July 1916) and at the Battle of Cambrai...
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Capture of Gueudecourt Capture of Eaucourt l'Abbaye Capture of Le Sars Attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt Capture of Schwaben Redoubt Capture of Stuff Redoubt...
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Somme. The Attack on the Gommecourt Salient took priority over another attack on the ridge. British planning continued and became the basis for the much...
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Home Counties (Kent) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (category Heavy batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery)
fought on the Western Front during World War I, in the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient, at the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele. During the German...
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95th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (category Siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery)
heavy howitzers on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918, beginning with the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the First day on the Somme. It then served...
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96th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (category Siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery)
beginning with the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the First day on the Somme. On the outbreak of war in August 1914, units of the part-time Territorial...
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93rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (category Siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery)
It served on the Western Front, including the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient, the Battle of Passchendaele, and the crushing victories of the Allied Hundred...
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4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (category Battalions of the London Regiment (1908–1938))
Gallipoli and against the Senussi, and saw a great deal of action on the Western Front, notably in the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient in 1916, at Bullecourt...
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carry out an Attack on the Gommecourt Salient as a diversion from the main offensive further south. 46th Division would attack from the north west, converging...
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Robin Hood Battalion (redirect from 577th (The Robin Hood Battalion, The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery)
of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 and the brigade they were part of sustained very severe casualties in the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient. In...
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Ancre to Serre and at Gommecourt, 2 mi (3.2 km) beyond, in the Third Army area. The objective of the attack was to capture the German first and second...
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Park Road East drill hall, Wolverhampton (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
the attack on the Gommecourt Salient in July 1916. After the war both 'D' Squadron of the Staffordshire Yeomanry and 232 Brigade were disbanded; the drill...
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Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
the 46th Division was involved in the diversionary Attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, on 1 July 1916. The initial...
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Pembroke Royal Garrison Artillery (category Defended ports units of the Royal Garrison Artillery)
June the battery moved to join VII Corps, which was preparing for the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient in the forthcoming 'Big Push' (the Battle of the Somme)...
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Edinburgh City Artillery (category Artillery Volunteer Corps of the British Army)
HAG on 3 March, then to 48th HAG on 17 April. 48th Heavy Artillery Group was assigned to support VII Corps' Attack on the Gommecourt Salient in the forthcoming...
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Battle of Albert (1916) (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
considerable defeat on the German 2nd Army but from near the Albert–Bapaume road to Gommecourt, the British attack was a disaster, where most of the c. 57,000 British...
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counter-attack but it was cancelled, to avoid a diversion of effort from the forthcoming offensive on the Somme, in favour of the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient;...
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56th (London) Infantry Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
place in the line in the Hébuterne sector. 56th Division's first operation as a complete formation was the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient on 1 July 1916...
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South African Heavy Artillery (redirect from No 4 (Kimberley and the Diamond Districts) Battery, South African Heavy Artillery)
supported the diversionary Attack on the Gommecourt Salient as part of 46th HAG. All six South African batteries served during the Somme offensive. By late...
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considerable defeat on the German Second Army, but from the Albert–Bapaume road to Gommecourt the British attack was a disaster where most of the c. 60,000 British...
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Tower Hamlets Engineers (category Engineer Volunteer Corps of the British Army)
was the attack on the Gommecourt Salient on 1 July 1916. This was a diversionary attack to support the start of the main offensive on the Somme. The obvious...
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carry out an Attack on the Gommecourt Salient as a diversion from the main offensive further south. 46th Division would attack from the north west, converging...
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1st (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) (category Battalions of the London Regiment (1908–1938))
while the assaulting brigades took up their positions in the new jumping-off trench. 56th (1st L ) Division's Attack on the Gommecourt Salient initially...
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2nd Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers (category Artillery Volunteer Corps of the British Army)
action preparing for the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient in the Battle of the Somme. As the final bombardment began on Z Day (1 July), the battery fired with...
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68th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (category Siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery)
preparing for the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient in the forthcoming 'Big Push' (the Battle of the Somme). Right Half Battery arrived at Sailly on 2 June and...
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1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers (category Coast defence units and formations of the British Army)
were under way for the 46th and 56th (1st London) Divisions to carry out an Attack on the Gommecourt Salient as a diversion from the main offensive further...
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Daniel Sandford (British Army officer) (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
it in action from the attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the First day on the Somme (1 July 1916) until he was posted to command the 355th Siege Battery...
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Territorial Force (category Reserve forces of the United Kingdom)
a disastrous attack on the Gommecourt Salient, a diversionary operation conducted by the Third Army. Two more territorial divisions, the 48th (South Midland)...
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110th Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I)
ready to exploit in case they broke through in their Attack on the Gommecourt Salient. The attack was a disaster and there was no possibility of a breakthrough...
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