Battles of the Somme
In July 1916, the British and French armies launched an offensive near the River Somme in northern France. The Battles of the Somme would form one of the bloodiest and most important campaigns of the First World War.
Men from every part of Britain and across the British Empire took part in the offensive, which lasted nearly five months. Both sides committed huge quantities of manpower and munitions to the struggle. When the offensive was halted in November 1916, the forces of the British Empire had suffered some 420,000 wounded, captured, or killed.
Captain Charles Tudor Bennett, 3rd Bn., attd. 1st Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regt.) - Died at High Wood
Second Lieutenant Stephen H P Hewett, 19th Bn., attd. 14th Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regt. - Died Near High Wood
Second Lieutenant Walter Spatz, 2nd Bn., Middlesex Regiment - Born in Samoa to German parents
L/Cpl Ralph Beresford, 1st South Staffs
Private Percy Jeeves 611, 15th Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regt. - Cricketer, immortalised by P.G. Wodehouse
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