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Sentence Examples The Germans launched at least 330 counter-attacks during the 1916 battle of the Somme. Surely at the Somme and other such battles you were ordered by those in charge to go over the top to provide cannon fodder? I do the Scottish Lilt either to the Battle of the Somme or to original tunes. Instead of tennis repeats, the BBC had decided to reshow the documentary, The Battle of the Somme. My dad served in the trenches in the First World War and my mum's brother was killed on the Somme. In 1916, tanks were first used in battle as the Battle of the Somme began in France. Tolkien himself, a signals officer who served in the Battle of the Somme, was invalided home with trench fever after five months. Then he scratches battlefields in the dirt with a stick, and puts his Battle of the Somme between the sweet gum trees. Then we had to wait a deuce of a time for our bath where we got rid of the Somme mud. This was unusual in that it is dedicated to the memory of the battle of the Somme in 1916 and carries no overt reference to Orangeism. Unlike Verdun, which the French quickly covered with a bell jar of remembrance, the Somme was pretty much rebuilt, monumented, or plowed under. On 15 September 1916, at the Battle of the Somme, after horrific infantry losses, forty-nine Mark I tanks were sent in to support infantry attacks across no-man's-land. The Colonian was huge and carried steel shells destined for the Somme battlefield in northern France, as well as copper ingots, brass fuses, ball-bearings and steel billets. After concussion and trench-fever on the Somme he was invalided to hospital in Edinburgh, where he was greatly encouraged in his writing by Sassoon. The Missing of the Somme was not merely written as a diversion from rewriting Tender is the Night. In The Missing of the Somme, one war, the Great War, is more directly his subject. Along with machine guns and poison gas, artillery guns played a prominent part in the trenches especially at battles such as the Somme and Verdun. Just weeks before the Somme, British soldiers put down the rising, leaving much of the city in ruins. The story was written in 1917 after Tolkien returned from the Somme, where he had served as a signaller. The Somme campaign of autumn 1916 marked a significant evolution in Allied commanders' understanding of trench warfare. Show More Sentences In the last days of the Battle of the Somme in November 1916, the British assaulted the Butte in the hope of wresting it from the Germans. Smith survived the night patrol, and met Tolkien again on the fringes of the Battle of the Somme that summer. It was said that French soldiers at Verdun were given much heart when they heard the distant rumble of the first British artillery salvos at the Somme. By then the Allied armies had advanced about ten miles and the Somme battlefield had been churned, like that of Verdun, into a featureless lunar landscape. Rivery, now virtually a suburb, was a rest area and here weary soldiers relaxed in boats on the River Somme. The Somme had cost Canada 24,029 casualties, but it was here that the Canadians confirmed their reputation as hard-hitting shock troops. They will not be able to pronounce your name without speaking of the towns, villages, tablelands, ridges and valleys of the Somme. Picardy, French Picardie, région of France encompassing the northern départements of Oise, Somme, and Aisne. At the time of the battle of the Somme, exactly 90 years ago, my grandfather and great-uncle were no more. The result, spurred in large part by the fine play of Eugenie Le Somme, also banished Argentina to an early exit from these youth finals. Road sign on the D929 just before Pozières indicating the position of the front line on 1 September 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. The Somme was the bloodiest battle of this conflict of unprecedented violence. By the time of the Verdun and Somme disasters in 1916, both the French and British armies faced an important lack of handguns. Jack has visited the battlefields on the Somme on numerous occasions and he presented a slide show showing some of the military cemeteries and gravestones. Places like the Somme, Verdun and Gettysburg are historic sites, sacred places, and the focus of complex issues surrounding cultural heritage and the commemoration and presentation of the past. The two most notable battles of the War to include Welsh forces were those at Mametz Wood on the Somme and the Battle of Passchendaele. On his nineteenth birthday he arrived at the front line in the Somme Valley in France, where he experienced trench warfare for the first time. As early as 487, the area between the River Somme and the River Loire came under the control of the Frankish lord Clovis. The final phase of the battle of the Somme saw the first use of the tank on the battlefield. The new leaders soon recognised that the battles of Verdun and the Somme had depleted the offensive capabilities of the German Army. Show More Sentences As a result, the Allied air successes over the Somme would not be repeated, and heavy losses were inflicted by the Germans. On 7 July 1916, he was injured while serving in the Battle of the Somme and invalided back to England. From 1 July to 18 November 1916, Haig directed the British portion of the Battle of the Somme. Haig thought this was breaching an agreement of 1 July that covering Paris and the Somme area was to take priority. The original plans for an attack around the river Somme were modified to let the British make the main effort. In July, bad news from the Somme campaign swept concern over Jutland from the British consciousness. By 6 October, the Second Army front from the Oise to the Somme and the Tenth Army front from Thiepval to Arras and Souchez had been stabilised. On the evening of 30 August, Australians of the Second Division, who next morning were to attempt the capture of Mont St Quentin, crossed to the north bank of the Somme to move into position. Reconnaissance teams have been sent to the Somme to scout out locations. When driving down the A 16 motorway, look out for the windturbine: it is the unmistakable sign that the Baie de Somme motorway service station is coming up. By late March the Germans had pushed the British right back across the old Somme battlefields east of Albert and were poised for another push towards Amiens. Urban expansion is an issue that affects cities around the world but there is only one Somme battlefield and the marked and unmarked graves of thousands of soldiers should be left to rest in peace. Such battles include Ypres, the Marne, Cambrai, the Somme, Verdun, and Gallipoli. Beauman lost contact with the BEF GHQ and was also unable to discover if Allied troops were going to dig in on the Somme or further south. On 20 May, the Germans had captured Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme and cut off the main Allied armies in the north. Only a few British survivors managed to retreat to the south bank of the Somme. Earlier, 12 Blenheims with air cover flew from England to attack German columns moving towards the Somme crossings and lost five aircraft. The 4th Army captured bridgeheads over the Somme but the attack on the Aisne failed against the French defence in depth. Single battles like Verdun and the Somme killed hundreds of thousands of men while leaving the stalemate unchanged. On July 1, 1916, nearly the entire regiment was wiped out at Beaumont Hamel on the first day on the Somme. Show More Sentences During the great Battle of the Somme in France in 1916, the British assaulted the German trenches near Beaumont Hamel. He was wounded three times, most severely in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. In his delirium he imagined himself back in a Somme casualty clearing station and asked for a message to be passed to his mother, now dead. He had heard the tales of battles won But could not imagine the wartorn Somme. There he would see no respite from the carnage as the wounded came streaming in from the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the third Battle of Ypres and from Arras and Passchendaele. Not far away, somewhere on this hillside, Charles Bean, Australia's official war correspondent and later official historian, had come with other journalists to witness the beginning of the Battle of the Somme at 7.30 am. Private David Carlson had been among the ranks of our unknown fallen for over eight decades, until January of this year when his remains were discovered on the Somme battlefield. It will never be forgotten, as the recent ceremonies in France to commemorate the 90 th anniversary of the battle of the Somme have shown, as well as, year after year, those of Anzac and Armistice Days. The German advance of March and April 1918 on the Somme was aimed at Amiens, a great Allied railhead and base, and the great symbol of Amiens was its ancient cathedral, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture. All this so that the Entente could re-occupy a stretch of blood-soaked mud along both banks of the Somme river averaging less than a kilometre in depth. Moving through the smoking streets they emerged into the almost untouched green country beyond, exhilarated to have the trenches and the mud of the Somme behind them. In 1916, when the Canadians were involved in the vast o ensives on the Somme, the infantryman carried a load that, in proportion to his weight, was heavier than mules were made to bear. Within minutes, two flights of Fokker triplanes, one painted bright red, were airborne and headed for the Somme. On 18 November 1916, the Battle of the Somme officially ended and for the remainder of the winter of 1916-17 the Australians garrisoned the line east of Flers. The results as revealed by aerial observation, were a repetition of the battle of the Somme, aeroplanes flying low could find only shapeless masses of churned up earth where the enemy's front line had been. Morpurgo spent years trying to turn it into a script before concluding that a story which begins in rolling Devon fields and moves on to tank battles in the Somme, was unfilmable and still less stageable. Having missed the Battle of Sanctuary Wood in which his unit had fought, he rejoined the unit in August of 1916, just as the Canadians were preparing to head south to take part in the Battle of the Somme. Embedded in the floor around the Altar are brass nameplates identifying the major actions in which Canadians fought in the First World War: names like Vimy, Passchendaele, the Somme and Ypres. It then moved south and joined XVII Corps of the Third Army to train for the Battle of the Somme. Towards the end of the month, the division moved further south to the Somme valley. Show More Sentences The division had suffered 3,993 casualties during the six days it had fought on the Somme, with over 600 men killed. Finally the Count of Flanders invaded France, ravaging the whole district between the Somme and the Oise before penetrating as far as Dammartin. From Noyelles, they were able to see the Somme estuary and the English Channel. French and British troops fought the Battle of Abbeville from 27 May to 4 June but failed to eliminate the German bridgehead south of the Somme. The German 4th Army succeeded in capturing bridgeheads over the Somme river, but the Germans struggled to get over the Aisne. On 20 May, the Germans captured Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme River, cutting off the Allied troops in Northern France and Belgium. Parts of the 1st Panzer Division and 2nd Panzer Division were also held back to defend bridgeheads on the south bank of the Somme. He volunteered to go to The Somme as a tunneller, to work on the four mines the BEF were working on. Fleet bases included such ports as Ravenna, Arles, Aquilea, Misenum and the mouth of the Somme River in the West and Alexandria and Rhodes in the East. Commemoration events began early in the morning while the peloton rode through several World War I battlegrounds, including the Somme, and past numerous war cemetaries. It was the first hour of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Within a few days, the panzers achieved a breakthrough against the centre of the French front near Sedan and drove westwards down the Somme river valley. The Germans captured Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme River on 21 May, cutting off the Allied troops in Northern France and Belgium from their bases south of the river. He then continued on his way to Flanders until he reached the river Somme. At one stage around 1960 I worked for an unshaven, vile and smelly street bookie, Wingy, who claimed he'd lost his arm in the service of the King on the Somme. Foch had earlier refused to send 4 French divisions to Flanders but now redeployed Maistre's Tenth French Army to the Somme sector, freeing up British forces. It was on 28 October 1918 that Kingsley died from pneumonia contracted during his convalescence after being seriously wounded in the 1916 Battle of the Somme. The Verdun lesson learnt, the Allies' tactical aim became the achievement of air superiority and until September, German aircraft were swept from the skies over the Somme. Protracted action at Verdun throughout 1916, combined with the bloodletting at the Somme, brought the exhausted French army to the brink of collapse. The entire Somme offensive cost the British Army some 420,000 casualties. Show More Sentences Tolkien was a combat veteran, having served in the Battle of the Somme from June 1916 until being sent back to England with trench fever in October of the same year. In July 1916 the Scots Guards took part in the first Battle of the Somme and in July 1917, the regiment began its involvement in the Battle of Passchendaele. In March 1918 they fought at the second Battle of the Somme and in Autumn the regiment took part in the final battles of the war on the Western Front. While some scholars believe the Belgae south of the Somme were a mixture of Celtic and Germanic elements, their ethnic affiliations have not been definitively resolved. The division's baptism by fire came in the first days of the Battle of the Somme, where it captured the strongly held Mametz Wood at the loss of nearly 4,000 men. He had six children and volunteered to go to the Somme as a tunneller. Full programme of sightseeing of the Somme and Ypres Saliant. It is loosely based on the Unknown Soldier, stands on a plinth of limestone sourced from the Somme and is encased in a Perspex obelisk, surrounded by poppies. Among their number were Rob Gilson of the Tea Club and Barrovian Society, who was killed on the first day of the Somme while leading his men in the assault on Beaumont Hamel. On 21 September, Falkenhayn decided to concentrate the 6th Army near Amiens, to attack westwards to the coast and then envelop the French northern flank south of the Somme. Guderian turned the 1st Panzer Division and the 2nd Panzer Division westwards on 14 May, which advanced swiftly down the Somme valley towards the English Channel. Examples from Classical Literature All the armament mustered at the roadstead of St. Valery, at the mouth of the Somme. The place was a rest billet, which we had just reached after a gruelling on the Somme. This retirement on the Somme is clever, though it may tell on the morale of his men. But the real terribleness of the Somme was not in the towns or on the roads. On the south or Left Bank of the Somme River the ground was held by the French. One afternoon on the Somme our battery received a severe strafe from 59's and tear-gas shells. I had not known a bath during all the time I was on the Somme and lousiness was part and parcel of my make-up. Mr. prestwich has suggested that ground-ice may have had its influence in modifying the ancient alluvium of the Somme. When I last wrote, on the Somme in 1915, I was sickening with typhoid fever. William Iles fights back tears as he visits the grave of his great grand-uncle Horace, who died amidst the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Thousands of Welsh soldiers died at the Battle of Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme in northern France. The escadrille passed through Paris on its way to the Somme front. I shall never forget my first sight of the Somme battlefields. A BALLOT has opened for members of the public to attend the centenary commemoration of the Battle of the Somme in France next year. In fact, we have spent almost 30 years collecting funds to raise the 38th Divisional Memorial on the Somme and to see that it is maintained in a good state of repair. Jimmy Speedie was killed at Loos in September 1915 and Currie, Ellis and Wattie all fell at the Somme, that repugnant slow march to death ordered by their own generals. Find more words! 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