The British Campaign in France and Flanders—January to July, 1918

CHAPTER VI

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THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME

The Retreat of the Eighteenth Corps

Retreat of the Sixty-first Division--The Gloucesters at Beauvais--Fall of Ham--Retreat of the Thirtieth and Thirty-sixth Divisions--Great privations of the men--Fine feat at Le Quesnoy--Summary of the experience of Maxse's Corps