The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First...

The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of...

The Battle of the Somme most commonly refers to the Anglo-French offensive in 1916 during World War I. The campaign was later divided into a series of...

This is the order of battle for the Battle of the Somme. The Battle of the Somme was an offensive fought on the Western Front during World War I from...

The Battle of the Somme (US title, Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme), is a 1916 British documentary and propaganda war film, shot by two...

the particularly significant Battle of the Somme in 1916. As a result of this and other battles fought in the area, the department is home to many military...

The first day on the Somme (1 July 1916) was the beginning of the Battle of Albert (1–13 July) the name given by the British to the first two weeks of...

the high ground of the former Arrouaise Forest [fr] at Fonsomme near Saint-Quentin, to the Bay of the Somme, in the English Channel. It lies in the geological...

fought over was the wilderness left by the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The action was therefore officially named by the British Battles Nomenclature Committee...

The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of...

The Battle of Pozières (23 July – 3 September 1916) took place in northern France around the village of Pozières, during the Battle of the Somme. The...

(1916), the opening phase of the Battle of the Somme Battle of Albert (1918), the opening phase of the Second Battle of the Somme This disambiguation page...

killed two years later at the Battle of the Somme and his body never found; in 1918, his name was added to the memorial as well. The site received protection...

On the morning of 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme during World War I, underground explosive charges planted by British tunnelling...

during the First World War. The line ran from Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne. In 1916, the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme left...

the Schwaben Redoubt. The first day of the Somme was the anniversary (in the Julian calendar) of the Battle of the Boyne, a fact remarked on by the leaders...

position commanded a vast field of fire. Similar positions had resisted capture for two months in the Battle of the Somme. The Australians had used surprise...

descriptions of battle, noting that he served in the Battle of the Somme. The battle formed a "spectacular" centrepiece in Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings:...

of disability. After extensive experience and success in battle from the Second Battle of Ypres, through the Somme and particularly in the Battle of Arras...

5 mi (4 km) of the Verdun citadel but in July the offensive was limited to provide troops, artillery and ammunition for the Battle of the Somme, leading...

in the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, and on 14 July the Battle of Delville Wood. Of the 3,153 men in the brigade only 750 were left when the brigade...

made. Among the most costly of these offensives were the Battle of Verdun, in 1916, with a combined 700,000 casualties, the Battle of the Somme, also in...

September during the Battle of the Somme. The battle was conducted by the Reserve Army (renamed Fifth Army on 29 October) from Courcelette near the Albert–Bapaume...

Canadian-born commander. The highpoints of Canadian military achievement during the Great War came during the Somme, Vimy, and Passchendaele battles and what later...

sectors of the line from the North Sea to the Orne River. On 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British Army endured the bloodiest...

Somme or The Somme may refer to: Somme (department), a department of France Somme, Queensland, Australia Canal de la Somme, a canal in France Somme (river)...

distract the Allies from their preparations for the offensive at Verdun and later attempts to divert Allied resources from the Battle of the Somme. Other...

2200 the company laid one mile and thirty yards long. The battalion was on the front line on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, their...

as missing presumed dead at the Battle of the Somme. It is estimated that more than three million men fought in the battle, and more than one million men...

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