Battle of Thiepval Ridge; Part of the Battle of the Somme of World War I: Date: 26–28 September 1916: Location: Thiepval, France and vicinity: Result: British victory: Belligerents  • Battle of Jutland [6] The Thiepval attack was to be followed by an attack astride the Ancre River. Battle of Thiepval Ridge, 26-30 September 1916. [41], Coordinates: 50°3′16.3″N 2°41′18.2″E / 50.054528°N 2.688389°E / 50.054528; 2.688389 (Battle of Thiepval Ridge), • French Empire  • Battle of Baku  • Battle of Megiddo Called The Shadow of Thiepval, it can be accessed on-site at Thiepval using a smart phone or tablet. The Reserve Army commander Lieutenant-General Hubert Gough was less certain but did lay stress on the supports crossing the danger zone swiftly. 19 Squadron attacked a German divisional headquarters at Barastre with 64 x 20-pound bombs. With fresh divisions coming into the line, Haig and Gough sought to deliver a knockout blow to the German Second Army, which they believed was demoralized and near collapse. By early morning the new divisional front line had been established between Hessen Weg and Staufen Riegel, touch on the left being gained at the Grandcourt–Courcelette road with the right of the 7th Division and the right being exended to the Feste Grüne.  • Belgium All one and a half battalions of German troops in the area of Grosser Riegel (Big Trench) and Schwaben Riegel, were overrun by British infantry, hardly any escaping. The defence of the 153rd Regiment on the outskirts of Thiepval collapsed, when three tanks appeared, proving to be immune to machine-gun fire and hand-grenades.  • Montenegro Troops later reached the south-west corner of the redoubt and by 5:00 p.m. the south side of the redoubt had been captured and linked with the troops in Midway Line to the right, as the left gained touch with mixed groups from the 54th Brigade.  • Greece The new attack northwards to keep touch with the British needed reinforcements of troops and artillery, which were taken from the Tenth Army further south.  • Total war By the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, the Imperial German Flying Corps (.  • Italy  • Battle of Jerusalem  • Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920)  • Meuse-Argonne Offensive Byng) and II Corps (Lieutenant General C.W. Reliefs were completed quickly in the 54th Brigade on the left and the attack through Thiepval resumed at 5:45 a.m., in company with a 146th Brigade battalion of the 49th Division, in the original British front line west of Thiepval. The attack was made by the Canadian Corps (Lieutenant-General J.H.G. [7] Orders for the capture of more objectives and to gain ground at every opprtunity were issued on 28 September, intended to combine with the Fourth Army attacks planned for early October, which became known as the Battle of Le Transloy; Stuff and Schwaben redoubts were to be captured by 29 September and Stuff Trench by 1 October. [26], Infantry Regiment 180 of the 26th Reserve Division held Thiepval with part of the 77th Reserve Regiment; Schwaben Redoubt and the old front line north-west to St. Pierre Divion were held by the 66th Regiment.  • Second Battle of Arras Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce resistance. Around 6:00 p.m. a German bombing attack nearly retook the trench, until repulsed at the last moment and later the Canadians withdrew to the support trench and then made a counter-attack at 2:00 a.m. which failed. Both tanks were lost early but the 29th Battalion in the centre reached the German front line in ten minutes, while the left battalion was stopped by machine-gun fire from ahead and the left flank, except for a few troops on the right. [14], The 1st Canadian Division attacked with two brigades.  • Franco-Syrian War (1920) Six aircraft of 27 Squadron were attacked by five Albatros D.I of Jasta 2 led by Boelcke, which shot down three and damaged one of the Martinsydes. By that time a century ago, nearly 20,000 British men lay dead or dying on these fields. Two changes were introduced into the artillery plan, gas shell was to be fired by 4-inch mortars and the machine-guns of both attacking Corps were arranged to fire overhead barrages into the gaps between the artillery barrage lines. On 28 September V Brigade aircraft reported the British advances at Schwaben Redoubt and directed artillery fire on 31 gun pits and blew up nine ammunition stores. It was emphasised that the Germans were to be driven off all the crest, to deny the Germans observation towards Albert and gain British ground observation of the Ancre valley. Stretcher bearers carrying a wounded man over the top of a trench in the village of Thiepval.  • Kerensky Offensive  • Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) The right brigade with two battalions advanced 400 yards (370 m) to Sudbury Trench and resumed the advance at 1:00 p.m., reaching Kenora Trench on the right which ran north-west back to Regina/Stuff Trench by 2:40 p.m. Directed by Nikki Parsons, Claire Popplewell, Helen Scott. On 27 September the 11th Division attacked again, bringing their 32nd Brigade out of the reserve, and got a footing in the Stuff redoubt. [1], The 18th Division moved south after three weeks' battle training in the Third Army area, joining II Corps on 8 September. Zollern Trench was occupied west to the junction with Midway Line and east to link with the Canadians. The 11th Division advanced with two brigades. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. [36] Approximately 2,300 German prisoners were taken of around 10,000 captured by the Reserve Army 14–30 September along with 27 guns, 200 machine-guns and 40 trench mortars.  • French-Armenian The Battle of Thiepval Ridge was the first large offensive mounted by the British Reserve Army of Lieutenant General Hubert Gough during the Battle of the Somme and was designed to benefit from British Fourth Army's Battle of Morval by starting 24 hours afterwards. After battalion reliefs in the 18th Division a bombing fight began around 7:30 a.m.along the western edge of Schwaben Redoubt which lasted all day, the ground gained could not be held and the battalion later relieved troops in the captured German front system. Canadian troops advancing to the left began to threaten the left flank as British troops get past on the right then caused the survivors to withdraw to Hessen Weg. The Sixth Army was to advance 3,000 yards (2,700 m) close to the line Moislains–Le Transloy. The Battle of Thiepval Ridge was the first large offensive mounted by the Reserve Army (Lieutenant General Hubert Gough), during the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. To the west the 33rd and 53rd Brigades consolidated their lines, while the 54th cleared Thiepval.  • Siam Two divisional field artilleries were attached to the division and II Corps put a battery of 6-inch howitzers and four tanks at the disposal of the divisional commander, Major-General Maxse. Canadian losses for the day were extremely heavy, total Allied losses for Thiepval were over 12 000. Three stages were set, with halts of ten minutes and one hour before the final advance. All of Thiepval had been captured by 11:00 a.m. and touch gained with the 53rd Brigade, 146th Brigade being relieved by a 25th Division brigade overnight.  • Battle of Galicia  • British Empire The infantry lost the barrage but fought on through the village until by 2:30 p.m., all but the north-west corner was captured. The right-hand battalion became bogged down fighting through Zollern Redoubt and most of the moppers-up were killed.  • Horse use [19], 29–30 September The 8th Brigade from the 3rd Canadian Division attacked at noon with the 11th Division on the left and reached Hessian Trench in places, which were lost and then regained during heavy German shelling and counter-attacks.  • Strategic bombing [28], Careful planning for the combined attack at Morval was necessary due to the French Sixth Army[Note 5] advance diverging east and north-east. With Charles Dance, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Huw Edwards, Jason Isaacs. At 1:00 p.m. the advance resumed to Hessian Trench, which was taken easily.  • Vardar Offensive Touch was gained with the right brigade but troops from the 11th Division on the left were not found. battle: Part of: World War I, Western Front of World War I, Battle of the Somme: Location: Thiepval, France: Point in time: 28 September 1916: Start time: 25 September 1916: End time: 28 September 1916: 50° 03′ 16.2″ N, 2° 41′ 18.24″ E The left brigade attacked eastwards during the morning, linked with the 34th Brigade and at 3:00 p.m. the rest of Hessian Trench was occupied. [40], Because of the significance that the positions at Thiepval took on in being a first-day objective that was not captured until almost three months later in the Battle of the Somme, the high ground on the point of the Thiepval Spur was selected to be the location of the Anglo-French memorial to the "missing of the Somme". Dust and smoke from the artillery hung in the air during the afternoon and shrouded the British infantry advance to Hessen Weg, where two reserve companies held them up. Two tanks advanced in support but quickly ditched as the battalions advanced again, reaching Zollern Trench by 1:15 p.m. against slight resistance, before being stopped by German machine-gun fire after another 250 yards (230 m) and falling back to Zollern Trench at dark, when an attempt to bomb forward was made. II Corps was expected to have the hardest job, as it would be attack part of the original German front line, as well as the three powerful redoubts. Britain's Prince William delivers a speech during a commemoration ceremony at the Thiepval Memorial. At 6:30 p.m. a carrier pigeon arrived at the 26th Reserve Divisional headquarters, with a message that eighteen men were left in the I Battalion dug-out.  • Maritz Rebellion (1914–1915)  • Turkish War of Independence At dusk the British artillery turned Zollern Graben into a moonscape, while British aircraft machine-gunned the trench from 150 feet (46 m). After a prolonged period where the main British attacks had been made on their right, Haig began to turn his attention back to the left, and the River Ancre.  • Russian Revolution (1917), • Ukrainian Civil War (1917–1921) On 21 September the trenches south of Thiepval were taken over from the 49th Division and work begun to prepare them for the attack. A virtual display of the memorial panels will be included. After a prolonged period where the main British attacks had been made on their right, Haig began to turn his attention back to the left, and the River Ancre. Engineer Field Companies, Pioneers and two battalions of infantry dug about 2,500 yards (2,300 m) of assembly and communication trenches, to link them to existing positions which were improved and supply dumps prepared over four nights of digging. The battle of Thiepval Ridge, 26-30 September 1916, was part of the first battle of the Somme. 2b. A tank appeared from Authuille Wood leading a third wave, which collected survivors of the first two and came close to the German position, just as the 180th Regiment companies on the south and west sides of the Thiepval defences, were attacked from behind by British bombers moving west. The division arranged a strategem whereby the assembly and Hindenburg trenches were to be left empty after the first waves had advanced and the reserve battalion held back to avoid the German counter-barrage. Artillery observers in aircraft and observation balloons reported 64 active German batteries in the first 24 hours and identified the positions of 103 more.  • Polish–Lithuanian War (1920) Finally, the 54th Brigade captured most of the village of Thiepval, with the help of a single tank that overcame resistance in the ruins of Thiepval château.  • Armistice of Mudros Artillery and aircraft were brought from Verdun and XXXII Corps took over on the right of I Corps. Mouquet Farm finally fell to the 11th (Northern) Division, and the Canadians advanced 1,000 yards (1 km) from Courcel… [29], German accounts of the battle conclude that the break-ins north-west of Courcelette and just east of Thiepval led to the defeat. The Battle of Thiepval Ridge[Note 1] was the first large offensive mounted by the Reserve Army of Lieutenant General Hubert Gough during the Battle of the Somme and was intended to benefit from the Fourth Army attack at Morval by starting 24 hours afterwards. 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