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| Question | Answer |
| Somme start and end dates | 1st July - 18th November 1916 |
| Where was Battle of the Somme | Somme River, South East Pas-de-Calais |
| (Date) Assassination Franz Ferdinand | 28th June 1914 |
| (Date) WW1 starts | 28th July 1914 |
| (Date) Schlieffen plan constructed and by who | 1905 by General Count Alfred von Schlieffen |
| (Date) Treaty of London signed | 1839 |
| (Date) Britain declares war on Germany | 4th August 1914 |
| (Date) General Joesph Joffre met Haig to discuss major offensive at Somme | 17th November 1914 |
| (Date) Haig becomes commander in chief BEF (and from who?) | 19th November 1914, Field Marshal John French |
| (Date) Meeting of the Generals | 29th December |
| Generals and politicians involved (in meeting of the Generals) | French President Raymond Poincaré, British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, Minister of War General Gallieni, Generals Dubail, de Langle de Cary and Foch |
| (Date) Germans strike major blow to French at Verdun | 21st February 1916 |
| location of Verdun | Verdun-sur-Meuse, north-eastern France |
| The German army at Verdun, French Army and causalities inflicted on French | German 5th army, French 10th army 542,000 French causalities |
| (Date) Joffre request Haig launch Somme offensive | 3rd May 1916 |
| (Date) Joffre requested to Haig to bring Somme forward to. Date Haig settles for | 25th June 29th June (bad weather postponed to 1st July) |
| (Date+ Time) Tanks first used on the Somme, Number or tanks used. What companies they were from | 15th of September 1916, 6:20am. C and D British Machine Gun Corps |
| No. of tanks order by Haig after Somme. | 1000 |
| No. of tanks made by Britain and France at end of war | 6,506 |
| Battle were tanks first were a success | 1917 Battle of Cambri |
| No. tanks used 1st wave Sword beach. Time they landed. Number that sunk | 25. 7:25am. 4 tanks sunk |
| When was creeping barrage first used, by who? (commanders name) | Boer war, Sir Henry Horne |
| British causalities first day Somme | 58,000 |
| British causalities Somme | 420,000 |
| French causalities Somme | 200,000 |
| Australian casualties Somme | 23,000 |
| New Zealand casualties Somme | 8000 |
| NZ killed rate | one in ten who fought at the Somme |
| NZ wounded rate Somme | 4 in every ten wounded |
| German causalities Somme | 600,000 |
| Kitchener's army people signed up after 18 months | 2,467,000 |
| Two examples Pals Battalions (names) | Accrington, Leeds |
| causalities out of numbered involved Accrington Pals in Somme | 720 participated. 584 killed, missing or wounded |
| Leeds Pals out of participants | 750 causalities out of 900 participants |
| Was pals battalion used in 1939 (the idea?) | Noe |
| Lord Kitchener's position 1914 and who he took over from | Secretary of State of War. General Henry Rawlinson |
| Percy Holmes quote on Accrington Pals | "I don'd think there was a street in Accrington and district that didn't have their blinds drawn, and the bell of Christ Church tolled that day." |
| Unknown Pal quote on Pal's battlion | "Two years in the making. Ten minutes destroying. That was our history" |
| (Date) Joffre request that Haig launch pointless offensive | 20th of January 1916 |
| Military unit Haig came from | 7th (Queens own) Hussars (cavalry) |
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