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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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)...

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 Fighting for Mouquet Farm, also known as the Battle of Mouquet Farm was part of the Battle of the Somme and began during the Battle of Pozières (23...

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:...

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...

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

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...

(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...

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...

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...

as part of a Battle of the Somme exhibition in the Imperial War Museum, London. (See "Second Lieutenant J R R Tolkien". Battle of the Somme. Imperial...

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...

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

Second Battle of Champagne 1916 Actions of the Bluff, 1916 Battle of Verdun Battle of Hulluch Battle of Mont Sorrel Battle of the Somme Battle of Fromelles...

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...

New tactics and the equipment to exploit them had been used, showing that the British had absorbed the lessons of the Battle of the Somme and could mount...

The British detonated 19 mines of varying sizes on July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The largest mines—the Y Sap Mine and the Lochnagar...

2010, p. 114. Jones 2010, p. 115. Battle of the Somme – 1916, BBC History, accessed 7 July 2015. Banning 2011. "Battle of Messines". diggerhistory.info....

The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux (also Actions of Villers-Bretonneux, after the First Battles of the Somme, 1918) took place from 24 to 27 April...