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	Battle of the Somme - MSN Encarta
		The Battle of the Somme, fought in the summer and autumn of 1916, was one of the largest battles of the First World War.
		The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, was the opening day of the British and French offensive that became the Battle of the Somme.
		The battle is renowned for the first use, by the British, of the modern tank.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567029/Battle_of_the_Somme.html (551 words)

	World War One Battlefields : Reviews : History/Analysis
		As with her other titles, the approach is to intertwine narrative with the recollections of veterans (the book was first published in 1983), in a way which is of great interest to those who, like myself, are particularly interested in the human stories behind the battles.
		First published in 1977, and then as a second edition by Bradford Libraries in 1993, this is now in a third edition which has been updated to include information on the courts martial of two soldiers of the 2nd Bradford Pals who were subsequently executed for desertion.
		On the first day of the Somme they were in the second wave of attackers, but opposite the Hawthorn Redoubt (where the mine was blown ten minutes before the infantry assault), there was little success, and as the PSB attacked at 7.55 a.m.
	www.ww1battlefields.co.uk /reviews/history.html (4520 words)

	First day on the Somme: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first day on the somme (isbn 0141390719) is a first world war military history book by martin middlebrook, published in 1971....
		Hawthorn ridge redoubt was a german front-line fortification west of the village of beaumont hamel on the somme....
		Thiepval is a village in the somme département, picardy region of northern france....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fi/first_day_on_the_somme.htm (8530 words)

	Poets Killed on the First Day of the Somme
		He was killed on the first day Somme during the bitter fighting for Serre, one of 836 casualties from his battalion.
		On the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, Hodgson was killed by a bullet in the throat from German machine gun fire while taking a supply of bombs to his men in newly captured trenches near Mametz.
		Killed on the first day of the Somme, during the fighting for Serre.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /killedsomme.html (532 words)

	History News Network
		The Battle of the Somme began its internecine course on July 1, 1916, claiming the lives of countless soldiers, the bloodiest of the "big pushes" that Allied commanders believed would swing the war their way.
		That the Somme did not herald a swift conclusion to the First World War was hardly down to the hapless men who marched to death and injury through the shell and machinegun fire, in extraordinary acts of courage and daring that have echoed down the generations.
		One of the outstanding feats of that terrible first day on the Somme came from an unusual Edinburgh regiment.
	hnn.us /readcomment.php?id=37447 (609 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 German Verdun offensive transformed the intent of the Somme attack; the French demanded that the planned date of the attack, 1 August 1916, be brought forward to 1 July, the aim chiefly being to divert German resources from Verdun in the defence of the Somme.
		On that day German troops were transferred from Verdun to contribute to the German defence, doubling the number of men available for the defence.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/somme.htm (1956 words)

	Somme Battlefield Tour - The Somme in One Day
		While we are now well served these days with battlefield guidebooks and other source material, it is often difficult to know where to start on any battlefield and these pages will therefore offer some advice on what to prioritise if you really only have a day available to see the main sites on the Somme.
		On the first day alone fourteen British divisions attacked on a front from Gommecourt in the north, to Montauban in the south.
		However, the Somme was not a place for cavalry, and the rest of the fighting was a hard infantry battle in which flame-throwers, gas, incendiary shells and finally tanks were used to dislodge the Germans.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /somme_in_day.htm (3382 words)

	Commemorations of The Somme
		The bloodiest single day in British (English to be precise) history was the Battle of Towton, when Edward IV won the crown on a storm swept Yorkshire moor.
		The day promised to be gloriously sunny and warm, and I sat in the morning sunlight and ate breakfast.
		Serre was a significant target on that day because from their trenches in front of the village, the Germans had a high view over a wide area of No-Mans Land, including the part which would be crossed slightly to the South, in the attack on Beaumont-Hamel and Hawthorn Ridge.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/somme.html (19956 words)

	MARTIN MIDDLEBROOK - The Writing of The First Day on the Somme
		He took part in the first day of the 1916 Somme battle but was killed on 22nd April 1917 at Héninel near Arras.
		The first was Private H. Kemp of the Grimsby Chums.
		The original words were reproduced in the first person, with the man’s name and unit in brackets at the end of the passage.
	www.fylde.demon.co.uk /middlebrook2.htm (10162 words)

	First Day of the Somme - Map
		Although writers often summarise the fighting as though it was one battle, the first day of the Somme (sometimes called the 'Battle of Albert') involved fighting along a front of 29 kilometres.
		Moreover, when you study the different engagements individually, you see that the generally-accepted view of the first day of the battle has been oversimplified and - to a degree - misrepresented.
		The story of the Somme given in most textbooks, is a generalised picture of foolish generals, who - having drilled discipline and 'battlefield morale' into the men - carelessly ordered them to walk into the machine-guns.
	www.johndclare.net /wwi2_FirstDay_map.htm (483 words)

	Commemorations of The Somme
		The bloodiest single day in British (English to be precise) history was the Battle of Towton, when Edward IV won the crown on a storm swept Yorkshire moor.
		The day promised to be gloriously sunny and warm, and I sat in the morning sunlight and ate breakfast.
		Serre was a significant target on that day because from their trenches in front of the village, the Germans had a high view over a wide area of No-Mans Land, including the part which would be crossed slightly to the South, in the attack on Beaumont-Hamel and Hawthorn Ridge.
	net.lib.byu.edu /~rdh7/wwi/memoir/somme.html (19956 words)

	The Battle of the Somme
		In the area of the River Somme the arrival of the first pale glimmerings of light brought with it a little drizzly rain.
		However, this was soon to pass, and the battle of this tragic, harrowing day was destined to be fought under a blue, cloudless sky, and a hot pitiless sun.
		As the day wore on no-man's-land which, before the assault, had been generally untouched by shelling, became, first of all an area of death to many who tried to cross it, and then, later on, as German shells pounded in, a haven of isolated shelters for the wounded.
	www.ramsdale.org /somme.htm (4421 words)

	First day of the Somme - WW2inColor Talk
		Today is the 92nd anniversary of the worst casualties ever suffered by the British Army in one day, on the first day of the battle of the Somme.
		He was 16 on the first day of the Somme battle.
		The second was killed during the battle of the Somme, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing (having no known grave).
	www.ww2incolor.com /forum/showthread.php?p=128173 (826 words)

	In the Trenches \| The Soldier's Experience in World War I
		The outbreak of the First World War was the pivotal event of the twentieth century.
		Art of the First World War: it is to be hoped that this commemorative site of art from some of the great museums of Europe will remain up for a long time.
		The Accrington Pals: the 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment and the first day of the Somme, 1 July 1916.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~egl2r/wwi.html (1333 words)

	The Great War . Historians . Peter Simkins \| PBS
		And this combination of circumstances on the first day of the Somme means that on the right flank of the British line, things are done better, things are done properly.
		The Germans also lose heavily on the Somme, and the learning curve of the British Expeditionary Force and the Dominion Forces in the First World War, I think, really begins at this point.
		This is the first appearance of tanks during the Battle of the Somme – that needs to be shaken down, if you like, into a working tactical system.
	www.pbs.org /greatwar/historian/hist_simkins_06_somme.html (655 words)

	Battle of the Somme
		All those raids of the week which I have recorded from day to day were but leading to a greater raid when not hundreds of men but hundreds of thousands would leave their trenches and go forward in a great assault.
		That is my latest knowledge, writing at midnight on the first day of July, which leaves our men beyond the German front lines in many places, and penetrating to the country behind like arrow-heads between the enemy's strongholds.
		The same opinion in almost the same words was given to me to-day by many men whose bodies bore witness to these German Maxims, and though their words were a tribute to the enemy, they also proved the fine generosity in the heart of our own men.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Somme/1st_Somme.htm (7594 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Special: Tragedy on the Somme
		For six days, thousands of massed British and French heavy guns, fed round the clock by munition trains, had poured 1.6 million shells onto the deeply echeloned German trench lines on the Somme.
		On the first day of the Somme, the British lost 19,240 dead, 35,494 seriously wounded, and 2,152 missing: 57,470 casualties in total.
		The Somme battlefield, with its grim constellation of military cemeteries, stand as silent warnings of the dangers of blind nationalism and military incompetence.
	www.worldwar1.com /sfsomme.htm (974 words)

	In From the Cold: Remembering the Somme
		Today, the first day of the Somme is not remembered not as the start of a decisive military campaign, but instead, as the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army.
		The number of British combat deaths on that day was roughly equal to the number of soldiers assigned to a heavy division in today's U.S. Army.
		Beyond the staggering loss of life, the Somme is also remembered as one of the first major battles captured by the motion picture camera.
	formerspook.blogspot.com /2006/06/remembering-somme.html (477 words)

	Battle of The Somme
		The Somme was a British initiative of the First World War, when after constant bombardment of German positions, thousands of foot soldiers left the security of the trenches and marched out to face the enemy.
		An exact count of the dead on the first day was impossible but it is estimated that 8,000 British troops were killed that day.
		These forays were slightly more successful than the Somme, but the war only came to an end in 1918, when the German army ran out of materiel and were obliged to sue for peace.
	www.wardsbookofdays.com /1july.htm (559 words)

	Gommecourt - Planning the Offensive
		he idea for the Somme Offensive was born in the winter of 1915-16 and took shape against the back drop of a series of Allied reverses first at Verdun and later in the Trentino region of Northern Italy.
		The plan required the British divisions to take in one bound the first and second German lines from Serre to Pozieres and then, because the distance to the second German line was deemed too great here, a position east of the villages of Contalmaison and Montauban at the southern end of the British line.
		By the end of a day of carnage unprecedented in the history of the British Army, 19,240 men had been killed, 2,152 were missing and another 35,593 were wounded; a total of 57,740 casualties in not much more than twelve hour's fighting.
	www.gommecourt.co.uk /plan.htm (2180 words)

	BBC/OU Open2.net - The Somme: From defeat to victory - About the programme
		July 1st 1916 was the bloodiest day in British military history.
		The fighting was savage, but with the help of innovative tactics, such as the 'creeping barrage', and a new-fangled weapon, one of the first ever tanks, they eventually defeated their German enemy.
		The result is a programme that is both deeply moving and offers a radical new perspective on the Somme, putting the terrible events of July 1st into their proper historical context.
	www.open2.net /thesomme/programmesummary.html (492 words)

	WW1, 1914-18, Loos
		It is a generally held belief that the Kitchener New Army made it's debut and was wiped out on the first day of the Somme.
		On that day it was only the North that suffered with telegram boy's working there way up and down the streets of back to back houses.
		After 2 days in Boulogne they went to Etaples for Divisional training and from there on the 21st September to the Concentration area for the battle of Loo's.
	www.royalnavaldivision.co.uk /loos.htm (933 words)

	First World War.com - The Western Front Today - Lochnagar Crater
		The Lochnagar Crater, at La Boiselle, is privately owned by Richard Dunning, having been bought in 1978 to save at least one of the original 1 July 1916 Somme craters from being filled in and built upon by local farmers.
		An annual ceremony takes place every year at a wooden cross at the crater on 1 July to commemorate the first day of the Somme offensive.
		After the crater was blown the crater, which was in German hands, was charged by the Tynesiders, without success, for by the time the attack was made following the explosion the Germans had regrouped and repelled the oncoming British.
	www.firstworldwar.com /today/lochnagar.htm (279 words)

	HELLFIRE CORNER - Nine VCs of the First day on the Somme
		The end of that fateful day saw close to 60,000 casualties on the British side, 19,000 of whom died on the chalky fields of the Somme.
		Later in the day the remnants of the battalion were withdrawn to the village of Hamel.
		On the eve of the Somme offensive, Walter and the 2nd Seaforths were positioned in reserve trenches as they were not to go forward in the first wave of the attack.
	www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk /9vcs.htm (5160 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| Rethinking the Somme
		The name Somme, as a result of 142 days of unrelenting combat, has a special place in British social and military history, as a common experience, shared by millions of Tommies, as well as soldiers from the Empire.
		In the Somme region there are 243 Commonwealth War Cemeteries containing the graves of some of the 125,000 British and Empire servicemen who died on the Somme in 1916 - whilst another 300,000 were wounded in the campaign.
		Understandably, the casualties of that first day still distort the achievement of the rest of the campaign for us, which was never as costly or wasteful of lives.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/5130386.stm (1936 words)

	First Day of the Somme, 1916 - History Teachers' Discussion Forum
		I think I will use this if I may in the ICT suite as a follow up to their Somme essays - they can question whether their assessment of the battle (and I must admit that it was negative) is wholly valid.
		All I have done so far, with a very able class, is to direct their attention to a number of summaries, in textbooks, of the events on the first day of the Somme.
		the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
	www.schoolhistory.co.uk /forum/index.php?showtopic=4397 (1429 words)

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