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	Battles Of The Somme - LoveToKnow 1911
		Battles Of July-November 1916 The four months and a half of almost continuous fighting which began with the great attack of July 1 1916 mark a turningpoint in the World War in more than one respect.
		South of Thiepval, however, at the angle known as the Leipzig Salient a slender foothold was gained and maintained despite the vigour of the German counter-attacks.
		The " battle of Morval " - the official title for the attack of Sept. 25 - was one of the most successful of the separate incidents of the Somme offensive.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Battles_Of_The_Somme (18602 words)

	World War One Battlefields : The Somme : Thiepval
		Thiepval was one of the fortress villages that was held by the Germans on the Somme front in 1916.
		After the War ended, Thiepval was chosen as the location for the Memorial to the Missing to commemorate those who died in the Somme sector before the 20th of March 1918 and have no known grave.
		The Thiepval Memorial is the largest of the Memorials to the Missing, and the last on the Western Front to be unveiled (one day after that at Arras).
	www.ww1battlefields.co.uk /somme/thiepval.html (2996 words)

	Thiepval: The Memorial to the Missing
		The Memorial to the Missing at Thiepval sits on the Leipzig Redoubt, the scene of much fierce fighting throughout the period of the battle from July to November 1916.
		Pictures from the time show, however, that Thiepval was one of the larger villages in the area and provided the German defenders with almost a hundred buildings, including the local chateau that they could fortify.
		The first casualty of Thiepval was a Frenchman (Boromée Vaquette) who was shot by accident by the French as the German army arrived in the area on 27 September 1914.
	www.webmatters.net /france/ww1_thiepval.htm (535 words)

	:: CWGC :: Thiepval
		Battles of the Somme: Battle of Thiepval Ridge, 26 - 28 September 1916.
		Originally planned to coincide with Fourth Army’s Morval offensive, the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, conducted by General Gough’s Reserve Army, began exactly 24 hours later, with the objectives of securing Thiepval and driving the Germans off the dominating crest line from Courcelette to the Schwaben Redoubt.
		By the battle’s end the British had gained most of the ridge-line though sections of Stuff and Schwaben Redoubts remained in German hands.
	www.cwgc.org /somme/content.asp?menuid=29&id=29&menuname=Thiepval&menu=main (294 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of the Somme, 1916
		Comprising the main Allied attack on the Western Front during 1916, the Battle of the Somme is famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops (one third of them killed) on the first day of the battle, 1 July 1916, which to this day remains a one-day record.
		The French Commander in Chief, Joffre, conceived the idea as a battle of attrition, the aim being to drain the German forces of reserves, although territorial gain was a secondary aim.
		Meanwhile the British attack was renewed in north-east, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, by the Fourth Army on 15 September.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/somme.htm (1956 words)

	The educational encyclopedia, world war I, the great war, battles and battlefields
		Gallipoli 1915 battle at Gallipoli, 1915, the Battle of Gallipoli took place on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli in World War I during 1915.
		Somme: battle of the Somme the year 1916 was the year of the Battle of the Somme.
		Ypres: second battle of Ypres the Ypres Salient was to be one of the most fought over areas of the whole war.
	www.educypedia.be /education/worldwarIbattles.htm (820 words)

	The Bear of Naden
		Thiepval was a village in the Somme department of France around which action took place during the Battle of the Somme that began July 1, 1916 (WWI, 1914 - 1918).
		The battle of Thiepval Ridge occurred Sept. 26, 1916.
		HMCS Thiepval, in pursuit of rumrunners, strikes an uncharted pinnacle rock at high tide and sinks in Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island on Feb. 27, 1930.
	www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org /resource_pages/chars/naden_bear.html (610 words)

	Thiepval Memorial to the Missing and Cemetery
		The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929) turning left and following the signs from Pozières.
		The Battle of the Somme finally ended on 18 November with the onset of winter.
		There can be a tendency to forget that the French were responsible for the southern end of the front during the battle and assisted on a number of occasions with artillery for their neighbouring British Divisions.
	www.webmatters.net /cwgc/thiepval_memorial.htm (756 words)

	Richard Harry Hill
		The 8th E Surreys were a division of the 53rd Brigade and involved in the 1916 offensives at Thiepval and the Schwaben Redoubt.
		Thiepval was a village on a hill in France which gave observation to the Germans of events in the Albert Area
		On the 26 September 1916 when the allies took Thiepval, the shelling had pounded the previously pleasant and peaceful place into a waste of churned up earth, tree stumps and shell holes filled with stagnant green water.
	website.lineone.net /~chrisjhill/HillTree/R_H_Hill.htm (454 words)

	THE SOMME
		The next phase was to be known as the Battle of Morval on the Fourth Army front, and by the Reserve Army as the Battle of Thiepval Ridge.
		His task on the left was to assault Thiepval and then storm the strong Schwaben Redoubt, which overlooked the Ancre from the western tip of the ridge.44 The defences which the Canadians were to break lay along a low spur projecting eastward from the main ridge.
		The Battle of Thiepval Ridge had ended (the official dates for the operation are 26-28 September) though the Reserve Army had failed to capture the north- western tip of the blood-soaked feature.
	www.cobwfa.ca /pages/SOMME.htm (14213 words)

	Battle of the Ancre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Allied commanders were due to meet at Chantilly on 15 November and the British commander-in-chief, General Sir Douglas Haig, wanted to be able to report favourable progress to his French counterparts.
		On 18 November, II Corps was expected to drive north towards the village of Grandcourt and the river.
		North of the river, V Corps was meant to secure the remainder of Redan Ridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Ancre (565 words)

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		In and around the salient, tens of thousands of British soldiers lost their lives on a battlefield that saw the Napoleonic style fighting methods of 1914 give way to the style of fighting which influenced "blitzkrieg" a generation later.
		This is, therefore, a wonderful opportunity not only to examine the British and German armies in action on the Western Front, but also to learn about their development over a protracted period, to analyse the experiences of those soldiers fighting in the trenches as well as those generals fighting in their headquarters.
		The Battle of the Somme in 1916 provides examples of the British Army at its best and its worst during the First World War.
	www.sandhurstfoundation.org /battlefieldtours.asp (716 words)

	Battle of the Somme: Chronology
		Rawlinson noted in his War Diary that the total number of men involved at the start of the battle were about 500,000, that there were 1,500 guns of which 450 were of a large calibre, 150,000 rounds were fired in the day and 50,000 in the night into the enemy front lines.
		This day was one of great progress for the Allies and the British began the third phase of the Battle of the Somme by advancing on a six mile front to a depth of 2,000 to 3,000 yards.
		The Battle of the Ancre begins on a foggy morning and Beaumont Hamel is stormed by the British.
	www.ramsdale.org /timeline.htm (4086 words)

	Battle of the Somme
		A young officer walking at the head of his platoon called out a cheery good night to me. It was a greeting in the darkness from one of those gallant boys who lead their men out of the trenches without much thought of self in that moment of sacrifice.
		Behind the veil of smoke which hides our men there were many different actions taking place, and the messages that come back at the peril of men's lives and by the great gallantry of our signallers and runners give but glimpses of the progress of our men and of their hard fighting.
		I have seen the wounded who have come out of the battle, and the prisoners brought down in batches, but even they can give only confused accounts of fighting in some single sector of the line which comes within their own experience.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Somme/1st_Somme.htm (7594 words)

	KINOULTON, THIEPVAL, VIMY RIDGE
		The line of trees so reminiscent of those to be seen in northern France lead up to a group of buildings Vimy Ridge Farm, previously known as Pasture Hill Farm, which was renamed by Sir Jesse after he purchased the property in 1919.
		Thiepval is the largest and one of the most emotive memorials to the missing from any war in which this country's soldiers have died.
		The British Government and the French have each promised to contribute towards the required funding of £900,000 and a further sum may be forthcoming from EU funding.
	www.melton-twinning.org.uk /canal-areas3.htm (587 words)

	Courcelette - Burial of Pte J.McArthur CEF 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A Canadian soldier killed in the Battle of the Somme was buried in ADANAC Cemetery on Thursday 12th November 1998.
		The day he died, his battalion was attacking German positions near the East Miraumont Road as part of the Battle of Thiepval Ridge.
		Despite a preliminary bombardment, the attack was a failure.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /courcelette.htm (426 words)

	John Pearson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The battles continued and on 26th September 1916, the Battle of Thiepval Ridge began at Courcelette.
		John Pearson was wounded during this battle and evacuated to Puchevillers, some way behind the front-line, where 3rd and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations were located.
		The battles around Courcelette continued, Regina Trench was captured on 11th November, the final Canadian operation on the Somme taking place on the 18th, when Desire Trench was attacked and taken on a day which started with snow and sleet, eventually turning to rain.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /howard.martin/Pearson.html (795 words)

	WW1 HISTORY PROJECT
		The main Allied attack on the Western Front during 1916, the Battle of the Somme is infamous for the loss of 58,000 British troops (one third of them killed) on the first day of the battle, 1 July 1916.
		The French Commander in Chief, Joffre, conceived the idea as a battle of attrition: the aim was to drain the German forces of reserves, although territorial gain was a secondary aim.
		On 13 November the BEF made a final effort on the far east of the salient in the Battle of the Ancre and captured the field fortress of Beaumont Hamel.
	www.thelearningcentre.org /ww1/sect3_p1.htm (1683 words)

	Winner of the 2002 WFA Undergraduate Essay Award
		Looking first at the Thiepval Memorial, a glance at the map shows that it is close to the north-western corner of the main 1916 battlefield.
		A study of that cemetery shows that up to 1,500 graves were moved there from the Thiepval area, an obvious clearance of wartime cemeteries in preparation for the building of the Thiepval Memorial and the surrounding park which commenced in 1929.
		Thiepval is a relatively marginal part of the 1916 battlefield and the Fifth Army, in its fighting retreat through this area in March 1918, was never at Pozières; the nearest Fifth Army units in the retreat were nearly seven miles away to the South, beyond the River Somme.
	www.wfa-usa.org /new/sommemem.htm (1229 words)

	Unique Facts About Europe: The World Wars
		Chemical weapons were used for the first time, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky was executed, and some of the century's first large-scale civilian massacres took place.
		Four dynasties, the Habsburgs, the Romanovs, the Ottomans and the Hohenzollerns, who had roots of power back to the days of the Crusades, all fell after the war.
		The tank is probably in reserve for the Battle of Thiepval Ridge which began on 26 September.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Europeweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Europe8.htm (633 words)

	Simkins on the Battle of the Somme
		The 36th (Ulster) Division, part of X Corps, succeeded initially in overrunning the formidable Schwaben Redoubt on the Thiepval plateau – one of the toughest German strongholds on the Western Front – but were compelled to pull back in the afternoon and evening, partly because of the failure of the divisions on their flanks.
		It is possible for the historian, luxuriating in the comfort of hindsight, to divide the rest of the British offensive into a number of distinct phases while recognizing, of course, that the pattern of operations would have seemed much less neat and clear-cut to the ‘poor bloody infantry’ who actually fought on the Somme.
		In the Battle of Morval, as Fourth Army’s operations between 25 and 28 September became known, the preliminary bombardment and initial creeping barrage were particularly effective in XIV Corps’ sector on the right.
	www.johndclare.net /wwi2_Simkins_Somme.htm (2867 words)

	Battlefield Experience - World War 1 & 2 Tours And Accomodation
		The tour of the battle grounds wil be with a British guide and will include Vimmy, the Somme, Verdun,
		and the wars battle field experience is for you.
		The Western Front played host to many regiments from many countries, at Battle Field’s Experience we can tailor tours to suit you, whether you are interest in a certain Country, Regiment or Area.
	www.battlefieldexperience.com /index.html (393 words)

	Tours WWI - Anglia Battlefield Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Battle of Verdun was conceived by the German High Command not to be won in the conventional sense of the word, but to “bleed the French Army white”.
		The Battle of the Somme saw the death of innocence of the British Army, ending in over 400,000 casualties.
		The tour will follow the major battles in chronological order and your expert guide(s) will explain the reasons for the decisions taken at the various stages of the War, and how the fighting evolved.
	www.angliabattlefields.co.uk /tours/ww1/greatwar.html (299 words)

	Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Summary
		He was commander of the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of the Somme and the 3rd Battle of Ypres.
		The battle ended the following day; the German advance was defeated, prompting them to initiate a withdrawal to the Aisne that signified the abandonment of the Schlieffen Plan.
		Following defensive successes at Battle of Mons and Ypres (1st Battle of Ypres), Haig was promoted to full General and made second-in-command of the British forces in France under Sir John French.
	www.bookrags.com /Douglas_Haig,_1st_Earl_Haig (2196 words)

	Ypres & The Somme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thiepval Tower as the sun streaks through the pillars where the names of the 74,000 Missing of the Somme are carved.
		Thiepval Ridge as seen from the Ancre River Cemetery
		Thiepval Ridge - looking at it as the Generals would have seen in on 1 July 1916 as the 36th Ulsters and the 32nd charged up the hill to their deaths.
	www.tnovosel.org /2002Photos.htm (563 words)

	Battle of the Somme - Wikimedia Commons
		The Battle of the Somme took place in northern France from 1 July to 18 November 1916, during the First World War.
		A ration party of Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench early in the battle, possibly on 1 July.
		Stretcher bearers retrieving a wounded soldier during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme (382 words)

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