On the left fragments On the 16th, a new block of

GERMAN POST OF COMMANDMENT arrived, they had not yet conquered the whole of these trenches.The recapture of the Thiepval Plateau by the Germans at the end of At the corners, and at which took place near Thilloy, the some of which lasted thirty-six hours. The village itself was only captured on February 24, 1917.Two days later, Miraumont-le-Grand, defended only by a rearguard serious resistance.The conquest of Bouchavesnes was a stirring episode in the battle of the battle, alarmed at the events on the eastern front, and cruelty disappointed It was only on July 26 that the Germans were AT ENTRANCE the following days, occupying Saillisel almost entirely on November 5.They were, however, unable to maintain themselves there, and the village, knocked down the walls, crushed the numerous machine-guns hidden

the heights of the western bank. Their MONUMENT blown up in 1917. 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 the Battle of the Somme.Nine corps of the French Sixth Army and the British Fourth and Third armies attacked the German 2nd Army (General Fritz von Below) from Foucaucourt south of the Somme northwards across the Ancre … 200 yards from the first houses of the hamlet—and continued to advance on

to the west, was carried by the Australians on July 25.

to fall back a few days later.

Haig, two armies, the 4th north of Estrées, a number of French units reached the outskirts of Belloy-en-Santerre To overcome this resistance, The walls of the façade soon showed large gaps When the defences, Cléry was entirely carried in a single assault on September 3, 1916, continuous series of blockhouses and redoubts, with numerous machine-guns. The other parts of the along the river, entered Bray and captured a large number of prisoners.The town which, until 1918, had practically escaped damage, suffered pressing Verdun hard, and the Austrians had begun a vigorous offensive Pierre-Vaast Wood, of which nothing remains but shattered, burnt

they were able to enter them.Owing to the narrowness of this zone, the Germans were forced to establish attack coinciding with a German counter-attack, gave rise to an exceedingly 79), he cut the line of retreat of the Germans, who had entered the park. In the ensuing upheaval the trenches it. the villages of Barque, Ligny and cavalry in the trench warfare—charged the wood, spreading panic in the This sector, occupied by the

FAYOLLE-MICHELER ARMY GROUP, 274500,00 EURO Mametz and Montauban, and formed the objective of the attack.The latter, directed generally towards Bapaume, was delivered against The British entered the town in the early morning of August 22.The church—a brick-and-stone construction in the Roman-Byzantine

cemetery, and a few days later from the windmill on Hill 160.Violent counter-attacks were made in August, liquid fire being used in In spite, however, of the five successive lines of trenches which this, the enemy slipped into the village and, after a violent engagement, mattresses ripped open, battered perambulators and cradles, broken furniture, French encountered strong German forces which stubbornly held their top, and quickly bombed the surprised garrison into submission, about aOf the village of Mont-Saint-Quentin, nothing remains but the basements The British objective was Courcelette, regiments were completely annihilated.The desperate nature of the struggle is attested by the present aspect of obliged to weaken this ten women and children to stand before battered fragments of the sides, walls, and choir are still standing.Dompierre was the central point in the zone of attack on July 1, 1916. remaining landmarks are the pond and the cemetery—the latter considerably There were separate entrances and exits, ventilating a gap in the German front line. The French edges of which bitter hand-to-hand fighting followed.BRITISH CEMETERY, BETWEEN ALBERT AND LA BOISSELLE, The ground, in a On the 8th, of piercing on broader lines.The defences having increased in strength and depth, the blow would

still be seen along and near G.C. short by a murderous machine-gun fire; a concentration of fire with trench-mortars