... Territorials. r capture of Pozteres, July 23-26, 1916, was one of the most interesting and hard- fought incidents of the Battle of the Somme. Pozleres, after the loss of the first G^man defensive zone early In July, became the principal point of the new system ...

... directions of the French and British offensive during the battle of the Somme. The British and French lines on July 1 touched each other close to Maricourt, about two miles north of the loop of the Somme between Hem and Frise. The British drove their attack ...

... of Peronne. It lay just behind that part of the German lines which was opposed to General Fayolle's army during the Battle of the Somme, and suffered terribly in the fierce fighting which took place south of Peronne. In the spring of 1917, 1C retreating ...

... quality, and the record this year is that the proportion of premature explosions is fifteen times less than it was in the Battle of the Somme, with the result that Sir Douglas Haig the other day paid a high tribute to the quality of the ammunition. We have ...

... resources of modern scientific warfare had been employed. This retreat was the result of the Allied success at the Battle of the Somme, which had driven so wide and deep a wedge into the German defensive system that it was endangered both to north and ...

... Windmill Country of North France and Belgium. The Nature of the Battle of the Somme near Albert in North France The above view was taken from the German lines during the fighting on the River Somme. The three villages mentioned Montauban, Thiepoal, and Maricourt ...

... of the fighting in which the Worcestershires and Wiltshires took part is from Mr. H. Perry Robinson's account of the Battle of the Somme, entitled The Turning Point (Heinemann). The fighting was then towards Thiepval:-- The ground was so torn and battered ...

... the Germans. This superiority explains their success in the Battle of the Somme. The Germans understand this as well as the Allies. Mr. Philip Gibbs, in his recently-published Battles of the Somme, prints a technical report on these operations made by General ...

... wrong to think that we have hitherto had no means at all of carrying aerial warfare into their country. Ever since the Battle of the Somme we have had a clear military supremacy in the air, and in a small way could have followed them up, but we felt that ...

... Germans. It was the fruits of the Battle of the Somme and of the spear-thrust up the valley of the Ancre. The German fortress-lines which had occupied years in the making were battered through in that long-drawn series of battles, and, as we long ago observed ...

... has been fierce and stubborn, rather resembling the long drawn-out struggle which took place round Combles during the Battle of the Somme. Bullecourt occupies a fairly strong position from the military standpoint, lying on one of several low ridges which ...

... British Tanks Progressive Improvement and Development of a Midget Type The dramatic appearance of the tanks in the battle of the Somme is now a matter of history. It is T open to question whether it was not an error to bring the landships into action ...