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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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...
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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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The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World...
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Lochnagar mine (category Battle of the Somme)
British during the First World War, to be ready for 1 July 1916, the first day on the Somme. The mine was dug by the Tunnelling Companies of the Royal Engineers...
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102nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade (category Pals Brigades of the British Army)
then served on the Western Front for the rest of the war. The brigade suffered appalling casualties on the First day of the Battle of the Somme. It recovered...
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Martin Middlebrook (category Knights of the Order of the Crown (Belgium))
wrote his first book The First Day on the Somme (1971) following a visit to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium in 1967. The book is...
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36th (Ulster) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
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...
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1916, the first day on the Somme, the Grimsby Chums were in the first wave attacking the fortified village of La Boisselle, just south of the Albert–Bapaume...
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Thiepval Memorial (redirect from Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme)
servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy...
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Beaumont-Hamel on the first day on the Somme during the First World War. Since the induction of Newfoundland into Canada in 1949, "Memorial Day" has been amalgamated...
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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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served on the Western Front from January 1916 until the Armistice, seeing action at the Somme – where it was virtually destroyed on the first day – Arras...
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Accrington Pals (redirect from The Accrington Pals)
where they first saw action in the Battle of the Somme. On the first day on the Somme, on 1 July 1916, the 31st Division was to attack the village of...
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Leeds Pals (category Military units and formations in the West Riding of Yorkshire)
1916 the battalion landed in France, joining the British build up for the Battle of the Somme. On the first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, the 31st Division...
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94th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Pals Brigades of the British Army)
war. The brigade was shattered on the First day on the Somme, but later saw action at Arras and distinguished itself at the Capture of Oppy Wood. It was...
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Public Schools Battalions (category Private schools in the United Kingdom)
destroyed on the first day of the Somme. After hard service both battalions were disbanded in February 1918 before the end of the war. On 6 August 1914...
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Sheffield City Battalion (redirect from The Sheffield City Battalion)
destroyed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in a disastrous attack on the village of Serre. The battalion continued to serve on the Western Front...
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Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions (redirect from List of the largest non-nuclear explosions)
start the Battle of the Somme. The explosions constituted what was then the loudest human-made sound in history, and could be heard in London. The largest...
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July 1 (redirect from First of July)
Eindecker. 1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded...
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Barnsley Pals (redirect from The Barnsley Pals)
training, the battalions suffered heavy casualties in a disastrous attack on the village of Serre on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. They continued...
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31st Division (United Kingdom) (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
entirely of Pals battalions. The 31st Division's first major action was on the first day on the Somme (1 July 1916). The division suffered 3,600 casualties...
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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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93rd Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I)
of the war. The brigade was shattered on the First day on the Somme, but later saw action at Arras, in the German spring offensive of 1918, and the final...
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Birdsong (novel) (category Novels set in the 1910s)
eyes, Faulks tells the reader about the first day on the Somme in July 1916 and the Battle of Messines near Ypres in the following year. Several episodes...
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89th Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I)
Pals'. The brigade landed in France at the end of 1915 and then served on the Western Front for the rest of the war, seeing action at the Somme, Arras...
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Reginald St John Battersby (section First World War)
an officer in the East Lancashire Regiment. Battersby was wounded in action leading a platoon over the top on the first day of the Somme but returned to...
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dominated by the Battle of the Somme which started disastrously on 1 July. The first day on the Somme remains the bloodiest day in the history of the British...
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Dominion of Newfoundland (category Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the flag caption or type parameters)
regiment at Beaumont Hamel on the first day on the Somme, inflicting 90 percent casualties.[page needed] Yet the regiment went on to serve with distinction...
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Battle of Cannae (redirect from The Battle of Cannae)
the British Army on the first day of the Somme offensive in 1916". Only about 15,000 Romans, most of whom were from the garrisons of the camps and had not...
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