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Battle of the Somme Causes+ Consequences statistics
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- 1Somme start and end dates1st July - 18th November 1916
- 2Where was Battle of the SommeSomme River, South East Pas-de-Calais
- 3(Date) Assassination Franz Ferdinand28th June 1914
- 4(Date) WW1 starts28th July 1914
- 5(Date) Schlieffen plan constructed and by who1905 by General Count Alfred von Schlieffen
- 6(Date) Treaty of London signed1839
- 7(Date) Britain declares war on Germany4th August 1914
- 8(Date) General Joesph Joffre met Haig to discuss major offensive at Somme17th November 1914
- 9(Date) Haig becomes commander in chief BEF (and from who?)19th November 1914, Field Marshal John French
- 10(Date) Meeting of the Generals29th December
- 11Generals 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
- 12(Date) Germans strike major blow to French at Verdun21st February 1916
- 13location of VerdunVerdun-sur-Meuse, north-eastern France
- 14The German army at Verdun, French Army and causalities inflicted on FrenchGerman 5th army, French 10th army 542,000 French causalities
- 15(Date) Joffre request Haig launch Somme offensive3rd May 1916
- 16(Date) Joffre requested to Haig to bring Somme forward to. Date Haig settles for25th June
29th June
(bad weather postponed to 1st July) - 17(Date+ Time) Tanks first used on the Somme, Number or tanks used. What companies they were from15th of September 1916, 6:20am. C and D British Machine Gun Corps
- 18No. of tanks order by Haig after Somme.1000
- 19No. of tanks made by Britain and France at end of war6,506
- 20Battle were tanks first were a success1917 Battle of Cambri
- 21No. tanks used 1st wave Sword beach. Time they landed. Number that sunk25. 7:25am. 4 tanks sunk
- 22When was creeping barrage first used, by who? (commanders name)Boer war, Sir Henry Horne
- 23British causalities first day Somme58,000
- 24British causalities Somme420,000
- 25French causalities Somme200,000
- 26Australian casualties Somme23,000
- 27New Zealand casualties Somme8000
- 28NZ killed rateone in ten who fought at the Somme
- 29NZ wounded rate Somme4 in every ten wounded
- 30German causalities Somme600,000
- 31Kitchener's army people signed up after 18 months2,467,000
- 32Two examples Pals Battalions (names)Accrington, Leeds
- 33causalities out of numbered involved Accrington Pals in Somme720 participated. 584 killed, missing or wounded
- 34Leeds Pals out of participants750 causalities out of 900 participants
- 35Was pals battalion used in 1939 (the idea?)Noe
- 36Lord Kitchener's position 1914 and who he took over fromSecretary of State of War. General Henry Rawlinson
- 37Percy 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."
- 38Unknown Pal quote on Pal's battlion"Two years in the making. Ten minutes destroying. That was our history"
- 39(Date) Joffre request that Haig launch pointless offensive20th of January 1916
- 40Military unit Haig came from7th (Queens own) Hussars
(cavalry)
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