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unusual facts about the Somme



Joe Lamaro

He served in the Australian Imperial Force's 18th Battalion from 1916 to 1917 in the signals unit, seeing action at Ypres and the Somme.

Johann von Ravenstein

Ravenstein entered the First World War as a battalion adjutant officer and saw considerable action on the Western Front, participating in the battles of Verdun, the Somme, and the Champagne Offensive.

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

The narrative moves from the trenches to the Fourth Army School, to Morlancourt and a raid, then to and through the Somme.

Second Son

At the same time, Reacher figures that a guy who had survived unscathed the battles of Verdun and The Somme and later the Nazi occupation of France, and who lived to age 90, "has already beaten the odds".

William Harrison Cowlishaw

At the end of World War I, like many Arts and Crafts architects of the period, he was commissioned by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission to design memorials and cemetery layouts in Flanders and France under Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, the Commission's advisor on architecture and layout.


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5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

The Inniskillings began their advance on Belgium on 31 August-the 7th Armoured Division's objective was the city of Ghent-and crossed the Somme, where the regiment's predecessor regiments had fought during World War I, and Authie rivers.

Alexander Lion

After the ceasefire on the Romanian front, he returned to France, serving at Reims and the Somme.

Alfred St. George Hamersley

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.

Antoine de Longueval

Little is known about his early life, not even his approximate birthdate, but he was probably from the village of Longueval in the Somme region of Picardy (scene of much heavy fighting during the Somme battles in 1916).

Arthur Hulme

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.

Belfield, New South Wales

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).

Charlie Mance

The Australian Imperial Forces took part in the advance south of the Somme, the Hindenburg Line, and Montbrehain in October 1918.

Count of Ponthieu

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.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1919

RRC Baggallay served in the Irish Guards and was successively captain and major, seeing service at the Somme and Ypres.

Donald Hankey

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.

Edward L. Atkinson

In 1916 he served on the Western Front and fought at the Somme, receiving the Distinguished Service Order.

Edward Milford

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.

Edward Tennant

His son Edward Wyndham Tennant (1897–1916), English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme

Elwin Ransom

Some casual references in Perelandra reveal that he had fought in the First World War, that he had been on the Somme and that on one occasion he had to overcome considerable trepidation before accepting - and successfully implementing - an unspecified "very dangerous job".

Ernest Farrar

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.

Ernest Seaman

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).

Francia

Around 428 the Salian king Chlodio, whose kingdom included Toxandria and the civitatus Tungrorum (Tongeren), launched an attack on Roman territory and extended his realm as far as Camaracum (Cambrai) and the Somme.

Fricourt German war cemetery

Fricourt German war cemetery is near the village of Fricourt, near Albert, in the French département of the Somme.

Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin

For his handling of combat operations on the Western Front, particularly at Arras and on the Somme, he was awarded the Pour le Mérite in 1916.

Gare de Curchy-Dreslincourt

The Gare de Curchy-Dreslincourt (Curchy-Dreslincourt station) is a former railway station located in the commune of Curchy in the Somme department, northern France.

Gare de Daours

Gare de Daours is a railway station serving the French towns of Daours and Aubigny in the Somme department.

Gare de Montdidier

The station formerly also allowed connections to the metre-gauge lines in the Somme operated by the Société générale des chemins de fer économiques from Albert via Rosières and from Noyon via Roye-sur-Matz (Oise region).

Gueudecourt

For the next phase of the Somme Offensive, the Battle of Le Transloy, men of the 88th Brigade including the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and 1st Essex Battalion were brought into the lines that ran through and around the northern edge of the village on 10 October 1916.

Hampshire Yeomanry

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.

Hugo Bleicher

He served as a private soldier in the First World War in the pioneer gas corps and was captured near the Somme.

J. N. L. Baker

His undergraduate career was interrupted by the First World War, during which he was wounded on the Somme.

Jean Miélot

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.

Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova

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.

McCrae's Battalion

Shortly after the publication of this book, a memorial cairn was constructed in the village of Contalmaison on the Somme.

Newtownards

A replica of Helen's Tower was built on the Somme battlefield as Northern Ireland's national war memorial.

Noadswood School

Several residential trips are organized at the school, including excursions to Bude, Cologne, Paris and to Ypres & the Somme.

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme is a 1985 play by Frank McGuinness.

Otto von Below

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.

Peter Casserly

On arrival in France, he was sent to the Somme, where he served as an armed guard with the 2nd Transport Unit.

Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt

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.

Richard Henderson

Richard Alexander Henderson, First World War stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli and the Somme

Somme

British historian Sir James Edmonds stated, "It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final victory on the Western Front were laid by the Somme offensive of 1916."

Soues

Soues, Somme, a town and commune in the Somme département of northern France

Tertry

Tertry, Somme, a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

Thomas MacGreevy

He enlisted in 1917, and saw active service at the Ypres Salient and the Somme, being wounded twice.

William Fitz-Ansculf

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.

William John Hocking

His youngest son Leslie (was in the R.A.M.C.) died on the Somme 1914-1918.