His divisions focused their attack on two villages, Fricourt and Mametz; they captured both on the first day for about 8,000 casualties.
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.
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May 1923 Air Union Farman Goliath crash, in which F-AEGB crashed at Monsures, Somme, France with the loss of all six on board
After the ceasefire on the Romanian front, he returned to France, serving at Reims and the Somme.
Having served in the American War of Independence under Rochambeau, he was sent in 1789 as deputy to the States-General by the nobles of the bailliage of Péronne, Somme.
Colonel Hamersley, now in his sixty-eighth year gave over the command to a younger man, Major Drought and the Batteries were commended by the authorities for their efficiency in battles such as the Somme, Arras and Ypres.
He was serving as a corporal in the 7th Battalion at the time of his death in action in October 1916 at Gueudecourt, in the Somme department of France.
William mustered his forces at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, and was ready to cross the English Channel by about 12 August.
Three streets are named after World War I sites of importance to Australians; Bazentin Street (after the town Bazentin in the Somme, France), Persic Street (after the SS Persic, a ship that transported Australian soldiers to Europe during the war) and Mena Street (an Australian Army training camp in Egypt during World War I).
On 1 September 1944, Bray-sur-Somme was liberated by units of the United States Army.
Cecil Patrick Healy (28 November 1881 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales – 29 August 1918 in Somme, France) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1900s and 1910s, who won silver in the 100m freestyle at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
The County of Ponthieu, centered on the mouth of the Somme, became a member of the Norman group of vassal states when Count Guy submitted to William of Normandy after the battle of Mortemer.
RRC Baggallay served in the Irish Guards and was successively captain and major, seeing service at the Somme and Ypres.
That grave was never located, and his name appears on the huge Thiepval memorial to the 70,000 missing and unidentified dead who fought on the Somme.
Henri Sannier, the mayor, is also a well-known French television sports reporter.
In 1916 he served on the Western Front and fought at the Somme, receiving the Distinguished Service Order.
In command of the 11th Battery from February 1918, he was recommended and awarded the Distinguished Service Order as well as a mention in despatches for his efforts in controlling artillery support during operations on the Somme and the Battle of Amiens.
His son Edward Wyndham Tennant (1897–1916), English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme
Farrar was killed on the Western Front at the Battle of Epehy Ronssoy, near Le Cateau in the Somme Valley south, west of Cambrai, in 1918.
Ernie is commemorated at Tyne Cot Cemetery (Panel No. 70), the memorial to the 36th Division at the Ulster Tower near Thiepval on the Somme, Felixstowe War Memorial (Suffolk), and the Scole War Memorial (Norfolk).
In June 1916, it moved to Cachy to join an improvised formation, Groupe de Combat de la Somme.
Fricourt German war cemetery is near the village of Fricourt, near Albert, in the French département of the Somme.
The Gare de Famechon (Famechon station) is a railway station located in the commune of Famechon in the Somme department, France.
The Gare de Namps-Quevauvillers (Namps-Quevauvillers station) is a railway station located in the commune of Namps-Maisnil and near Quevauvillers, in the Somme department, France.
1/1st Hampshire Yeomanry was part of the 1st South Western Mounted Brigade on mobilisation but departed for France and saw action in Messines, the Somme, Arras, Ypres, and Flanders.
Lost his eldest son Ronald Herbert Pike Pease on 15 September 1916 at the Somme in France, killed in action.
He served as a private soldier in the First World War in the pioneer gas corps and was captured near the Somme.
His undergraduate career was interrupted by the First World War, during which he was wounded on the Somme.
He was born at Gueschard, between Abbeville and Hesdin, in what is now the Somme département, but was then in Picardy, and from 1435 part of the Duchy of Burgundy.
In 1810 he became a general inspector of cavalry and two years later he was given the command of all French troops on the North Sea coastline, from the Somme to the Elbe.
The Kasino Point machine gun post was located between the villages of Mametz, Carnoy and Montauban.
On 16 July 1836 Hugo watched a storm off the coast of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, and this experience led him to write the poem.
The second theory, and probably the most respected, is that the club took its name from a town that was unlucky enough to be on the Somme front during the Great War of 1914-1918.
Goliath F-AEBY of Air Union crashed at Monsures, Somme, France following the structural failure of a wing in flight.
Shortly after the publication of this book, a memorial cairn was constructed in the village of Contalmaison on the Somme.
Among them was Lady Frances Moloney, a widow, Mary Martin, who had gained nursing experience on the battle lines of Somme, and Agnes Ryan, a schoolteacher.
A replica of Helen's Tower was built on the Somme battlefield as Northern Ireland's national war memorial.
Several residential trips are organized at the school, including excursions to Bude, Cologne, Paris and to Ypres & the Somme.
Below was expected to overrun Arras during March 1918 in a repeat of Caporetto; his inability to do so led to the failure of the German campaign to capture the Somme that same month.
On arrival in France, he was sent to the Somme, where he served as an armed guard with the 2nd Transport Unit.
The letter is addressed to an otherwise unknown Picard countryman named Sygerus (Sigerus, Ysaerus) of Foucaucourt, possibly a friend and neighbor of the author; Foucaucourt borders on the home area of Peregrinus around Maricourt, in the present-day department of the Somme, near Péronne.
:* Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Cambrai 1917, St. Quentin, Ancre 1918, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1916-17, Gaza, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917-18
Richard Alexander Henderson, First World War stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli and the Somme
Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris.
The commune was popular during the 19th century with artists and writers and Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Sisley and Degas all had villas here at one time or another.
Soues, Somme, a town and commune in the Somme département of northern France
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.
William's date of birth is not known, though it was likely in Picquigny, Picardy, now in the Somme department, France, in the mid 11th Century.