His divisions focused their attack on two villages, Fricourt and Mametz; they captured both on the first day for about 8,000 casualties.
The Kasino Point machine gun post was located between the villages of Mametz, Carnoy and Montauban.
Historians Peter Barton and Jeremy Banning with archaeologists Tony Pollard and Iain Banks from the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at Glasgow University were successful in May 2010 in finding at Mametz the remains of one of the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors.
Having returned to England after the Battle of Loos, he was positioned with his Battalion in the front line trenches at Fricourt in February 1916, before moving a kilometre or so to the trenches opposite the town of Mametz in April.
Mametz | Mametz, Somme |