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| | Simkins on the Battle of the Somme |
 | | After that, if all went well, Haig hoped to break through the second position on the right, on the high ground between Pozieres and Ginchy. |
 | | This final phase of the Somme offensive saw Beaumont Hamel and Beaucourt pass into British possession, but Serre, which had been an objective on the very first day, 4V2 months before, was still occupied by the Germans when the battle petered out on about 19 November 1916. |
 | | Together, since 1 July, Rawlinson’s and Gough’s formations had wrested from the Germans a strip of territory measuring approximately twenty miles wide by six miles deep, yet Fourth Army remained three miles from Bapaume while the French, farther south, had been stopped short of Peronne. |
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