CHAPTER II

THE SOMME

Tanks--Progress on the Somme--The Move to Battle Positions--In Contact with the Enemy--The Battle of Ginchy--The Attack-Haig’s Dispatch-- Battle of Flers-Courcelette--Orders to Tanks--The Attack--The Quadrilateral--The Battle of Morval--Battle of the Transloy Ridges--The Division Relieved--Lessons of the Somme--Lieut.-Col. Bayliffe’s Paper--The Bad Conditions--Lord Cavan’s Appreciation-- Falkenhayn on Verdun--Hindenburg and Ludendorff pp. 49-100