The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 |
Contents
The Western Front | 29 |
The Somme and the Germans | 53 |
The Plan | 67 |
Copyright | |
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2nd Lieut 2nd Royal 30th Division 46th North Midland Albert artillery Bapaume barrage battle Belfast Bill Soar Boisselle bombardment Bradford Pals British soldiers British trenches Capt captured casualties cavalry Cemetery corps commander dead defences Devons dug-outs enemy Essex fighting fire Fourth Army France Fricourt front-line trench German front line German lines German shells German trenches Gommecourt Gough Green Howards grenades Grimsby Chums guns Haig heavy July Kasino Point killed L/Cpl La Boisselle Lieut-Col Lieut-Gen Light Infantry Liverpool Pals London Maj.-Gen Mametz Man's Land Manchester Pals Matthews Montauban morning Newfoundlanders night North Midland NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS officers ordered platoon position prisoners Rawlinson Reginald Bastard Reserve Regiment Schwaben Redoubt sector sent sergeant Sheffield City Battalion shell hole Sherwood Foresters Somme Staffs Thiepval took troops Tyneside Irish Tyneside Scottish Ulster Division units Verdun village Volunteers waves wire Wood wounded yards Yorks and Lancs علام