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)...
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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...
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Somme (French pronunciation: [sɔm] ; Picard: Sonme) is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. It...
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The Somme (UK: /sɒm/ SOM, US: /sʌm/ SUM, French: [sɔm] ) is a river in Picardy, northern France. The river is 245 km (152 mi) in length, from its source...
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The Canal de la Somme (French pronunciation: [kanal də la sɔm]) is a canal in northern France. Its total length is 156.4 km with 25 locks, from the English...
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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...
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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...
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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 River Somme. It...
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Lauritz Sverdrup Sømme (born March 7, 1931) is a Norwegian entomologist. His work has focused on insects in houses and stored foods, and especially the...
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Corbie Doullens Saint-Riquier Arleux Mortagne Crèvecœur The Somme towns (French: Villes de la Somme) were a series of nine fortified towns in Picardy in north...
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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...
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The following is a list of the 771 communes of the Somme department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):...
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Péronne (French pronunciation: [peʁɔn]) is a commune of the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is the former site of the Péronne...
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Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme is a 1985 play by Frank McGuinness. The play centres on the experiences of eight unionist Ulstermen...
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Y (French pronunciation: [i] ee) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Y bears the shortest place name in France...
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The First Day on the Somme (ISBN 0-14-139071-9) is a First World War military history book by Martin Middlebrook, first published in 1971 and still in...
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Thiepval Memorial (redirect from Somme Memorial)
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 Somme of the First World...
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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 1...
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Operation Michael (redirect from First Battle of the Somme (1918))
offensive due west, along the whole of the British front north of the River Somme. This was designed to first separate the French and British Armies before...
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HMS Somme may refer to: HMS Somme (1918) was an S-class destroyer launched in 1918 and sold in 1932. HMS Somme was a Battle-class destroyer laid down in...
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Baie de Somme (French pronunciation: [bɛ də sɔm], Bay of the Somme or Somme Bay; Picard: Béie d'Sonme) is a large estuary in the Hauts-de-France region...
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The Face of Battle (redirect from The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme)
and World War I—by analyzing three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, all of which involved English soldiers and occurred in approximately the...
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Somme is a rural locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Somme had a population of 39 people. Somme is bounded...
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Verdun, in 1916, with a combined 700,000 casualties, the Battle of the Somme, also in 1916, with more than a million casualties, and the Battle of Passchendaele...
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The French tanker Somme is a Durance-class command and replenishment tanker (French: Bâtiment de commandement et de ravitaillement, BCR) of the French...
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Lyn Macdonald (redirect from Somme (book))
It Passchendaele, from a poem by Siegfried Sassoon. Other works included Somme. In 1988, she led a party of veterans to the Western Front, accompanied...
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Saint-Valery-sur-Somme (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ valʁi syʁ sɔm], literally Saint-Valery on Somme; Picard: Saint-Wary), commune in the Somme department, is...
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Somme-Leuze (French: [sɔm løz]; Walloon: Some-Leuze) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality...
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a symbol of French determination and self-sacrifice. The Battle of the Somme was an Anglo-French offensive from July to November 1916. The opening day...
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Somme Barracks could refer to: Somme Barracks, Sheffield in Sheffield, England Somme Barracks, Blackburn in Blackburn, England Somme Barracks, Shepparton...
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