The Sommes
summary : Because of Haig's awful strategies, even though Allies won, they still lost many soldiers.
Bataille de la Somme
-July 1916, General Douglas Haig - British and French Forces -> attacked along a line of low ridges near the Somme River, France.
-Haig's strategies didn't work for trench warfare.
-Big number of dead worriers on the both British,French side and German side
- 24 000. - Although Haig claimed victory.
I passed the worst fighting here since the war
started. We took all kinds of prisoners but God
we lost heavy, all my camarades killed or wounded....
Dear Wife, it is worse than hell, the ground is cov-
ered for miles with dead corpses all over.... Pray for
me dear wife, I need it very bad.... As long as I live I'll
remember it. - Frank Maheux, a Canadian soldier.
Source: Quoted in Desmond Morton,
When Your Number's Up(Toronto: Random House, 1993). 158.
-Haig's strategies didn't work for trench warfare.
-Big number of dead worriers on the both British,French side and German side
- 24 000. - Although Haig claimed victory.
I passed the worst fighting here since the war
started. We took all kinds of prisoners but God
we lost heavy, all my camarades killed or wounded....
Dear Wife, it is worse than hell, the ground is cov-
ered for miles with dead corpses all over.... Pray for
me dear wife, I need it very bad.... As long as I live I'll
remember it. - Frank Maheux, a Canadian soldier.
Source: Quoted in Desmond Morton,
When Your Number's Up(Toronto: Random House, 1993). 158.