BATTLE OF THE SOMME

ROLL OF HONOUR

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British Divisions

2nd DIVISION

5th BRIGADE   H.Q. 1 name

716 names

2nd O.B.L.I.

226 names

2nd H.L.I.

120 names

17th Royal Fusiliers

144 names

24th Royal Fusiliers

202 names

5th Machine Gun Company

22 names

5th Trench Mortar Battery

1 name

6th BRIGADE

956 names

1st Liverpool

218 names

2nd South Staffordshire

186 names

13th Essex

239 names

17th Middlesex

300 names

6th Machine Gun Company

13 names

6th Trench Mortar Battery

No fatal casualties

99th BRIGADE

778 names

1st Royal Berkshire

183 names

1st K.R.R.C.

206 names

22nd Royal Fusiliers

133 names

23rd Royal Fusiliers

219 names

99th Machine Gun Company

37 names

99th Trench Mortar Battery

No fatal casualties

PIONEERS

10th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

58 names

ARTILLERY

75 names

Field Artillery

58 names

XXXIV Brigade

14 names

XXXVI Brigade

17 names

XLI Brigade

27 names

50th Battery

70th Battery

56th (Howitzers) Battery

D (Howitzers) Battery (from 16th November)

15th Battery

48th Battery

71st Battery

D (Howitzers) Battery

9th Battery

16th Battery

17th Battery

47th (Howitzers) Battery

Trench Mortar Batteries

14 names

Medium

Heavy

X2

7 names

Y2

2 names

Z2

2 names

V2

3 names

2nd Divisional Ammunition Column

3 names

ROYAL ENGINEERS

16 names

5th Field Company

6 names

226th (Tottenham) Field Company

4 names

1/1st East Anglian Field Company

5 names

2nd Divisional Signal Coy

1 name

ARMY SERVICE CORPS

2nd Divisional Train

28th H.T. Coy

31st H.T. Coy

35th H.T. Coy

172nd H.T. Coy

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS

15 names

5th Field Ambulance

8 names

6th Field Ambulance

3 names

100th Field Ambulance

4 names

11th Sanitary Section

ARMY VETERINARY CORPS

3rd Mobile Veterinary Section

 

OPERATIONS OF THE 2nd DIVISION - SOMME 1916

25th-27th July : Delville Wood/Waterlot Farm. Capture and consolidation of a great part of Delville Wood. Attack towards Guillemont from Waterlot Farm.

8th-10th August : South of Longueval. Attacks on Guillemont.

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19th August - 19th September : Hebuterne sector.

1st-8th October : Hebuterne /Serre sector.

17th-22nd October : Serre sector.

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11th-16th November : Redan Ridge operations.