First day of the Somme

by Andrew Macdonald

  100. Sheffield, Somme, p. 155.

  101. Hindenburg, Marshal von, Out of My Life (Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, undated), p. ix.

  102. Sheffield, Gary, The Somme (London: Cassell, 2003), p. 155.

  103. Hindenburg, pp. 241–2.

  104. Sheffield, Somme, p. 156.

  105. Haig, Douglas, diary, 29 March 1916, NAUK, WO/256/9.

  106. GHQ, ‘The Opening of the Wearingout Battle’, 23 December 1916, in Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches, ed. Lt.-Col John H. Boraston (London: JM Dent & Sons, 1919), pp. 58–9.

  107. The figure for the number of casualties on the memorial is taken from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website (www.cwgc.org). Its database links 72,403 names to the Thiepval Memorial, but 148 of these are soldiers who listed under aliases and are therefore included twice. Website last accessed 16 January 2016.

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