1–10 July 1916 — Somme, Picardy, France
Coordinates: 50.04° N, 2.72° E
Contalmaison — The Struggle for the Heights
Union: British Fourth Army (Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson)
• Lt-Gen Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston — VIII Corps
• 23rd Division
• 17th (Northern) Division
• 19th (Western) Division
German 2nd Army (Gen. Fritz von Below)
• Elements of Reserve Infantry Regiments (RIR)
• 183rd Division
• 3rd Guard Division (reinforcements sector-wide)
CHANNEL LINKS
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RESEARCH SOURCES
Official History
Edmonds, J.E., and Wilfrid Miles, eds. Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1916, Vols. I–II. London: Macmillan, 1932; 1938.
Secondary Works
Philpott, William. Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme. London: Little, Brown, 2009.
Sheffield, Gary. The Somme. London: Cassell, 2003.
Prior, Robin, and Trevor Wilson. The Somme. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Primary Sources
Imperial War Museums. Somme Diaries Collection.
The National Archives (UK), WO 95. VIII Corps and 23rd Division War Diaries.
Reference
“Battle of Contalmaison.” Wikipedia, accessed [insert date].
Federal Archives of Germany — WWI Records (Public Domain).
IMAGE SOURCES
Imperial War Museums — https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections
National Archives (UK) — https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Bundesarchiv — https://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/
Library of Congress — https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
U.S. National Archives (NARA) — https://www.archives.gov/research
Australian War Memorial — https://www.awm.gov.au/collections
Europeana — https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections
Gallica (BnF) — https://gallica.bnf.fr/
ECPAD (France) — https://www.ecpad.fr/
Wikimedia Commons (WWI) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_I
PICRYL — https://www.picryl.com/
MUSIC
Root, George F. The Battle Cry of Freedom. Library of Congress Recording.
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