The French divisions were forced Motion back and the two divisions of the II Bavarian Corps , advanced Cause_to_make_progress westwards on the north side of the Somme , eventually being stopped Process_end around Maricourt , Montauban and Fricourt .

Combles became Becoming a backwater until the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Somme in 1916 , when it was used Using as a shelter for reserves , supplies and engineer stores and a staging area for reinforcements .

The Capture Conquering of La Boisselle ( 1–6 July 1916 ) was a British local operation Military_operation during the Battle Hostile_encounter of Albert , the name Name_conferral given Giving by the British to the first two weeks of the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Somme .

The village of La Boisselle forms Coming_to_be part of the small commune of Ovillers-la-Boisselle , located some north-east of Amiens in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France .

On 1 July 1916 , the first day on the Somme , La Boisselle was attacked Attack by the 34th Division as part of the III Corps but the bombardment Attack had not damaged Damaging the German deep-mined dug-outs ( ) and a German listening Perception_active post overheard a British telephone conversation Communication the day before , which gave Giving away the attack .

In 1916 , the Battle Hostile_encounter of Verdun had been a costly failure Earnings_and_losses for the Germans and the Anglo-French Battle of the Somme had forced a defensive Defending battle Hostile_encounter on the Germans , leaving Departing the western armies ( ) exhausted Expend_resource .

Construction of the Hindenburg Line in France was begun Process_start in September 1916 to make a retirement from the Somme front possible , to counter an anticipated increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in the power of Anglo-French attacks Attack in 1917 .

A shorter Western Front could be held Defending with fewer troops and by incorporating Cause_to_amalgamate the lessons of defensive Defending battle on the Somme , the importance of troop dispersal Dispersal , reverse-slope positions , defence Defending in depth and camouflage , German infantry casualties Catastrophe could be reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale .

The retirement to the Hindenburg Line took place Process_start as part of the ( Operation Alberich/Alberich Manoeuvre ) from February to March 1917 , after local withdrawals on the Somme had been forced on the 1st Army by British attacks Attack up the Ancre valley in January and February .

The battle Hostile_encounter was the final large British attack Attack of the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Somme ; the Reserve Army had been renamed Name_conferral on 30 October .

New German defensive Defending tactics adopted Choosing after the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Somme of defence Defending in depth and rapid counter-attack Attack , had been enforced Action on the German 6th Army after the disaster Attack of 9 April .

II Corps asked Request for a delay until 19 November to move Motion artillery forward ; five British divisions were transferred Military_operation to Italy and four British divisions on the coast were sent Sending to take over French positions south of the Somme .

The Butte de Warlencourt is an ancient burial mound off the Albert–Bapaume road , north-east of Le Sars in the Somme in northern France .

During the Battle Hostile_encounter of Le Transloy ( 1–20 October 1916 ) , part of the Battle of the Somme , the Butte de Warlencourt was the subject of several attacks Attack by the British Fourth Army , which were costly failures ; attacks Attack in November also failed Earnings_and_losses .

The 2nd Australian Division occupied Hold the Butte on 24 February 1917 , during the German retirements Departing made Action on the Somme front , preparatory to Operation ( ) , the German retreat Escaping to the Hindenburg Line .

General Ferdinand Foch , commander of `` groupe des armées du nord '' ( Northern Army Group ) and co-ordinator of the armies on the Somme , was unable to continue the sequential attacks Attack by the Anglo-French armies achieved Achieve in September , because persistent rain , mist and fog grounded aircraft , turned Change the battlefield Hostile_encounter into a swamp and greatly increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the difficulty of transporting Military_operation supplies Supply to the front over the few roads in the area and the land that had been devastated Destroying since 1 July .

The German 2nd and 1st armies on the Somme managed Control a recovery Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale after the string of defeats in September , with fresh divisions to replace exhausted troops and more aircraft , artillery and ammunition diverted Removing from the battle Hostile_encounter at Verdun and stripped Removing from other parts of the Western Front .

The reinforcement Cause_change_of_strength of the Somme front with troops and equipment Supply from Verdun also contributed Causation to the German defeat Conquering in the First Offensive Battle Hostile_encounter of Verdun ( ) and the loss Earnings_and_losses of forts Douaumont and Vaux .

The soldiers of the British , French and German armies endured miserable conditions , in which the Germans were able to keep going in the knowledge that the onset of winter would end the Somme offensive Attack , despite the many extra casualties caused Causation by illness .

The Capture Conquering of Mametz took place Process_start on 1 July 1916 , when the British Fourth Army attacked Attack the German 2nd Army on the Western Front , during the first day of the Battle of the Somme .

During the Battle of Albert 1914 the II Bavarian Corps attacked Attack westwards north of the Somme but was fought Quarreling to a standstill east of Mametz .

Reinforced Cause_change_of_strength by the XIV Reserve Corps the Germans on the north side of the Somme attacked Attack again and took Conquering Mametz on 29 September .

Fricourt is a village that was fought Hostile_encounter over in July 1916 , during the Battle of the Somme , which took place Process_start in France during the First World War .

Fricourt formed Creating a salient in the German front-line and was the principal German fortified village between the River Somme and the Ancre .

The first day on the Somme , 1 July 1916 , was the beginning Process_start of the Battle of Albert the name given Giving by the British to the first two weeks of the Battle of the Somme .

The first day on the Somme , 1 July 1916 , was the beginning Process_start of the Battle of Albert the name given Giving by the British to the first two weeks of the Battle of the Somme .

Nine corps of the French Sixth Army and the British Fourth and Third armies , attacked Attack the German 2nd Army ( General Fritz von Below ) from Foucaucourt south of the Somme northwards across the Ancre to Serre and at Gommecourt , beyond , in the Third Army area .

The German defence south of the road mostly collapsed and the French had `` complete success '' on both banks of the Somme , as did the British from Maricourt on the army boundary , where XIII Corps took Conquering Montauban and reached Arriving all its objectives and XV Corps captured Conquering Mametz and isolated Fricourt .

The German defeats Conquering from Foucaucourt to the Albert–Bapaume road , left the German defence Defending on the south bank incapable of resisting Defending another attack Attack ; a substantial German retreat began Process_start from the Flaucourt plateau to the west bank of the Somme close to Péronne ; north of the Somme in the British area , Fricourt was abandoned GiveUp overnight .

The German defeats Conquering from Foucaucourt to the Albert–Bapaume road , left the German defence Defending on the south bank incapable of resisting Defending another attack Attack ; a substantial German retreat began Process_start from the Flaucourt plateau to the west bank of the Somme close to Péronne ; north of the Somme in the British area , Fricourt was abandoned GiveUp overnight .

The French Sixth Army suffered Bodily_harm and the German 2nd Army lost Orders were issued Creating to the Anglo-French armies to continue the offensive on 2 July and a German counter-attack on the north bank of the Somme by the 12th Division , intended for the night of took Creating until dawn on 2 July to begin and was destroyed Destroying .

The village became Becoming a backwater until 1916 when a third line of defence Defending was dug behind the Somme front , as part of the German preparations to receive Receiving the British-French offensive being prepared GetReady on the Somme .

The village became Becoming a backwater until 1916 when a third line of defence Defending was dug behind the Somme front , as part of the German preparations to receive Receiving the British-French offensive being prepared GetReady on the Somme .

The Capture Conquering of Trônes Wood ( 8–14 July ) was an action in the First World War fought Hostile_encounter by the British Fourth Army and the German 2nd Army , during the Battle of the Somme .

The British attacks Attack were part of preliminary operations , to reach Arriving ground from which to begin Process_start the second British general attack Attack of the Battle of the Somme , against the German second position from Longueval to Bazentin le Petit on 14 July .

The German defenders fought Hostile_encounter according to a policy of unyielding defence and immediate counter-attack Attack to regain Recovering lost ground , intended to delay Change_event_time the Anglo-French advance south of the Albert–Bapaume road and give Giving time for reinforcements sent Sending to the Somme front to arrive Arriving .

The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux ( also Actions of Villers-Bretonneux , after the First Battles of the Somme , 1918 ) took place Process_start from 24 to 27 April 1918 , during the German Spring Offensive to the east of Amiens .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Delville Wood was fought Hostile_encounter from 1916 , one of the engagements Hostile_encounter of the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Somme .

It was fought Hostile_encounter between Allied forces and the German Empire in the Somme River valley in northern France .

They were outmanoeuvred by the French king , Philip VI , who garrisoned Control all of the bridges and fords over the River Somme and followed Self_motion the English with his own field army .

Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt was a German front-line fortification Defending , west of the village of Beaumont Hamel on the Somme .

Sprung ten minutes before zero hour , it was one of 19 Mines on the first day of the Somme and was filmed Social_event by Geoffrey Malins .

In September 1914 , during the Race to the Sea , the divisions of the German XIV Corps advanced Cause_to_make_progress on the north bank of the Somme westwards towards Albert and Amiens , passing through Martinpuich .

The village became Becoming a backwater until 1916 , when the British and French began Process_start the Battle of the Somme and was the site of several air operations by the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) , which attacked Attack German supply dumps in the vicinity .

Much of the ground fought Hostile_encounter over was the wilderness left Departing by the Battle of the Somme in 1916 .

The action was therefore officially named Name_conferral by the British Battles Nomenclature Committee as `` The First Battles of the Somme , 1918 '' , whilst the French call it the `` Second Battle of Picardy '' ( ) .

Operation Michael failed Earnings_and_losses to achieve Achieve its objectives and the German advance was reversed Change during the Second Battle of the Somme , 1918 ( 21 August – 3 September ) in the Allied Hundred Days Offensive .

The Capture of Schwaben Redoubt ( ) was a tactical incident Catastrophe in the Battle of the Somme , 1916 .

It formed Cause_to_amalgamate part of the German defensive Defending system in the Somme sector of the Western Front during the First World War and consisting Cause_to_be_included of a mass of machine-gun emplacements , trenches and dug-outs .

The operation was preceded Process_start by the better known rescue of and French soldiers from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo On 20 May , the Germans had captured Conquering Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme and cut off Hindering the main Allied armies in the north .