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Beaumont-Hamel and the Battle of the Somme, Onwas Them, Trained a Few and Most Were Minutes Within Killed of the Assault 2015-12-18 2:03 PM Hunter’s CWGC TIMELINE Cemetery 1500s June 1916 English fishermen establish The regiment trains seasonal camps in Newfoundland in the rain and mud, waiting for the start of the Battle of the Somme 1610 The Newfoundland Company June 28, 1916 Hawthorn 51st (Highland) starts a proprietary colony at Cuper’s Cove near St. John’s The regiment is ordered A century ago, the Newfoundland Regiment suffered staggering losses at Beaumont-Hamel in France Ridge No. 2 Division under a mercantile charter to move to a forward CWGC Cemetery Monument granted by Queen Elizabeth I trench position, but later at the start of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. At the moment of their attack, the Newfoundlanders that day the order is postponed July 23-Aug. 7, 1916 were silhouetted on the horizon and the Germans could see them coming. Every German gun in the area 1795 Battle of Pozières Ridge was trained on them, and most were killed within a few minutes of the assault. German front line Newfoundland’s first military regiment is founded 9:15 p.m., June 30 September 1916 For more on the Newfoundland Regiment, Beaumont-Hamel and the Battle of the Somme, to 2 a.m., July 1, 1916 Canadian troops, moved from go to www.legionmagazine.com/BloodInTheMud. 1854 positions near Ypres, begin Newfoundland becomes a crown The regiment marches 12 kilo- arriving at the Somme battlefield Y Ravine CWGC colony of the British Empire metres to its designated trench, Cemetery dubbed St. John’s Road Sept. 3-6, 1916 1907 Battle of Guillemont Newfoundland becomes a dominion of the British Empire Sept. 9, 1916 Pas Canada’s 2nd Battalion captures Aug. 4, 1914 The Danger Tree a half-kilometre section of Foncquevillers Beaumont-Hamel Britain declares war on Germany, German trench at Pozières Ridge meaning Newfoundland is also at war Gommecourt Newfoundland Memorial Sept. 9, 1916 Oct. 4, 1914 Battle of Ginchy Bucquay The 30-hectare site of the Beaumont- Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is Newfoundland British front line Sept. 15-22, 1916 Regiment Memorial located nine kilometres north of the 6 a.m., Battle of Flers-Courcelette Héburterne Puisieux July 1, 1916 no text option town of Albert in northern France. 537 Newfoundland soldiers— An hour-long artillery It commemorates Newfoundlanders known as the First Five Hundred— bombardment of German who fought in the First World War, are equipped, trained and ready positions at Beaumont-Hamel to sail for England for training at signals the beginning of the FRANCE particularly those who have no known Serre Bapaume Aldershot and then in Scotland Somme offensive Miraumont 29th Division Memorial grave. Features of the battleground— Louvencourt trench lines and bomb craters—have August 1915 7:20 a.m., been preserved, and the site is dominated Beaumont- Beaucourt Ancre Warlencourt The Newfoundland Regiment, July 1, 1916 Hamel by the Newfoundland Regiment expanded to 1,000 men, sails to 18,000 kilograms of Sept. 15, 1916 Grandcourt Memorial itself: a bronze caribou stag Malta, Greece and Egypt explosives are detonated Acheux in a tunnel under the Six tanks and a creeping artillery atop an outcrop of granite and shrubs Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt, barrage help Canadian infantry St. John’s troops capture Courcelette, Hamel native to Newfoundland. The caribou September 1915 an important German Road Trench stronghold west of one of few Allied victories on Le Sars overlooks the ground across which the The regiment deploys with the the Somme Courcelette Gueudecourt British 29th Division for three Beaumont-Hamel battalion advanced on July 1, 1916. Englebelmer Thiepval Visitor centre months in the failed attack on Le Transloy the strategic Gallipoli peninsula 7:30 a.m., Sept. 25-28, 1916 Martinpuich zero hour, Battle of Morval July 1, 1916 Pozières Flers Final line, Nov. 18 Start of the Battle of the Somme, Sept. 26-28, 1916 Battle of Flers-Courcelette the offensive by British and French forces against German Battle of Thiepval Ridge This battle, from Sept. 15 to 22, 1916, was Sailly-Saillisel armies on both sides of France’s Somme River actually fought on a wider front than its Aveluy Ovillers Bazentin Ginchy Morval Oct. 1-18, 1916 name suggests. The Canadian Corps’ Battle of Transloy Ridges 8 a.m., role was to attack and secure observation July 1 points over Germany’s Third Position La Boisselle Combles Oct. 1-Nov. 11, 1916 Montauban The battlefield goes quiet. near Courcelette. Two innovations were Albert The 86th and 87th brigades Battle of the Ancre Heights used here: the creeping barrage—artillery Fricourt of Britain’s 29th Division have Mametz July 14 Rancourt suffered huge losses that moved forward every few minutes in Sept. 22, 1915 Hardecourt Nov. 13-18, 1916 pace with the advancing infantry—and Private Hugh McWhirter is killed Battle of the Ancre Sept. 15 by enemy fire in a support trench 8:45 a.m., the tank—of which six were allotted to the in Gallipoli, the regiment’s first July 1 Maurepas Canal du Nord Canadians. Three of these got stuck in the fatality of the war Newfoundland Regiment moves mud and one broke down. Sugar Trench Carnoy Bouchavesnes Longavesnes on the enemy. Silhouetted on the Stuck Candy Tr Dec. 6, 1915 horizon, most of the regiment is Stuck wiped out At the 2nd Inter-Allied Conference Sugar July 1 at Chantilly, France, the allied Factory Cléry countries—France, Britain, Italy July 1-Nov. 18, 1916 Taffy Tr Taffy and Russia—co-ordinate their Trench Broken Numerous individual battles Regina Tournai strategy for the upcoming year, make up the Battle of the Somme Ancre down Stuck including plans for the Battle of the Somme July 1-13, 1916 Nov. 28, 1917 Schwaben THE TANKS Roisel Redoubt Stuff Pozières Bray Mons Feb. 21,Charleroi 1916 Despite 107,070 British and French Newfoundland Regiment is Redoubt Frise Lens casualties, the first two weeks of renamed the Royal Newfoundland Hessian L Vimy Germany attacks the defences of the Somme Offensive, known as Regiment by George V Trench Courcelette E Valenciennes the French army at Verdun Zollern N the Battle of Albert, succeeds in Zollern Trench N Arras drawing German reserves and Zollern Redoubt A Bay of the ammunition away from Verdun October 14, 1918 H Trench C Somme 17-year-old Thomas Ricketts, a private fighting with the H Doullens July 14-17, 1916 Corbie S Bapaume Royal Newfoundland I Hancourt Thiepval Flacourt Somme River Battle of Bazentin Ridge Regiment in Belgium, Candy L is instrumental in the Mouquet Trench G Beaumont-Hamel Courcelette capture of four field Farm SommeSugar Dompierre N Daours Sugar Trench Pozières July 14- guns, four machine Factory E Albert Ancre River Bazentin Sept. 15, 1916 guns and eight March 1916 Camon Barleux Battle of prisoners. His Thiepval The Newfoundland Delville Wood action earns him Martinpuich July 14 Amiens Regiment moves to the Victoria Cross Foucaucourt Saint- the Western Front on January 19, 1919 Allied front line Quentin July 19-20, 1916 German front line Vermand April-May 1916 Battle of Fromelles June 7, 1925 German trenches Pozières Sept. 15 The regiment deploys in The Beaumont-Hamel Railway July 1 trenches at Englebelmer Newfoundland Memorial and Louvencourt near site is officially opened Noye Beaumont-Hamel in France by Field Marshal Earl Haig Vermandovillers Somme Athies Fresnes Rouen Beauvais Beauvois PHOTO CREDITS: background: Legion Magazine archives; timeline: The Rooms/VA 37-15.2; Canadian Centre for the Great War/2015.02.20.00001; Ablaincourt CWM/19790262-033; CWM/19710261-0142; Imperial Elevation in metres War Museums/Q 64; Imperial War Museums/Q 754; Allied front line July 1 ReimsLAC/ICON55993; William I. 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