1–6 July 1916 — Somme, Picardy, France
Coordinates: 50.02° N, 2.69° E
La Boisselle — The Lochnagar Inferno
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RESEARCH SOURCES
- Miles, Wilfrid. Military Operations France and Belgium, 1916, Vol. II: 2nd July 1916 to the End of the Battles of the Somme. London: Macmillan, 1938. (Reprint: IWM and Battery Press, 1992. ISBN 0-901627-76-3.)
- Sheffield, Gary. The Somme. London: Cassell, 2003. ISBN 0-304-36649-8.
- Middlebrook, Martin. The First Day on the Somme. London: Penguin, 1971.
- Prior, Robin, and Trevor Wilson. Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914–1918. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
- Imperial War Museums — Battle of the Somme collections.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-battle-of-the-somme - First World War.com — “The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, 1916.”
https://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/bazentin.htm - HistoryOfWar.org — Rickard, J. “Battle of Bazentine Ridge, 14 July–17 July 1916.”
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_bazentine_ridge.html - Wikipedia contributors. “Battle of Bazentin Ridge.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bazentin_Ridge - PICRYL — Public Domain and Creative Commons Military Photography Archive.
https://www.picryl.com - At our heroes at the Somme — Federal Archives of Germany (Bundesarchiv), Germany — Public Domain.
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