Image: Ancre sector 1 July 1916

Description: Map of the Ancre River sector of the Somme battlefield on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. British front line is shown in red. German trenches are shown in blue. German barbed wire is shown as dotted blue lines. The British divisions attacking on this sector were the British 29th Division at Beaumont Hamel and the 36th (Ulster) Division between the Ancre and Thiepval. The British 4th Division was attacking to the north towards Serre. The British 49th (West Riding) Division was in reserve. The sector was defended by the German 26th Reserve Division which had three regiments - 99th Reserve, 119th Reserve and 121st Reserve - in the front-line. The progress of the British 109th Brigade which captured the Schwaben Redoubt is shown.
Title: Ancre sector 1 July 1916
Credit: Own Work by Gsl. Based on a British Ordnance Survey 1916 map (trenches as of 28 April 1916) held by the Liddle Collection. Units based on Map 9, The First Day on the Somme, Martin Middlebrook, 1971 and The Somme, Gary Sheffield, 2003. Originally uploaded to EN Wikipedia 21 November 2004
Author: Gsl
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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