Remembering the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, tanks and the “Hell of High Wood” (September 1916) September 15, 2020 by BoTWarMemorial. It resulted in thousands of battlefield casualties, but also signalled the start of new thinking in military tactics that would eventually solve the riddle of the trenches and help turn the tide of the war. Radio communication was not available While it was a rare Allied victory on the Somme, the advances at Courcelette cost several thousand Canadian casualties. On a wider front their effectiveness was limited, given their scarcity Night quiet. On September 15, 1916, British, New Zealand and Canadian troops attacked the Germans at Flers-Courcelette on the Somme. Includes a map of key points on the battlefield. particularly during the Battle of the Somme. This short 26 minute video (from the CEFRG or Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group)  portrays in pictures and words the experiences of the Canadian Corps, commanded by Sir Julian Byng, who contributed two infantry divisions to the fighting at Flers-Courcelette. Each tank was run by an officer and seven men. Accompanied by one tank and following behind a creeping artillery barrage, they overtook the German trenches and a sugar refinery by 8 a.m. Later that day, at 6 p.m. the 22nd Battalion (French-Canadian) and the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles) attacked and captured the village through hand-to-hand fighting Attacked from HIGH WOOD on West portion of STARFISH and COUGH DROP. Reinforcements (possibly from a NZ division) crossing the old German front line during the advance towards Flers, 15 September 1916. 17th London Battalion attacked on left in HIGH WOOD, 7th London Battalion on right outside wood. reinforcements halted the British and Canadian advance on 17 September; the
( Log Out /  further 7 failed to work at zero hour. Two of the four tanks attached to the New Zealand Division were knocked out by German artillery fire during the day. World War I - Battle of Flers-Courcelette. Includes dates of Canadian participation. As a measure of their fundamental unreliability, 17 tanks A useful accessory to the infantry, but nothing moreAn illustrated review of the performance of newly-introduced tanks at the 1916 Battle of Flers-Courcelette. Nevertheless, the Allies suffered very heavy losses and the attack on Flers-Courcelette was called off on September 22.
Meanwhile 6th London Regt. Tank D1, which received a shell hit on the sponson, became the first tank to become seriously damaged in a battle. Extracted from Battle Story: Somme 1916 by Andrew Robertshaw, Four Mark I tanks filling with petrol, Chimpanzee Valley on 15 September 1916 the day the tanks first went into action, Little Willie, prototype of the Mark I tank, A Mark I tank preparing for the advance on Flers, 15 September 1916, A Brigadier and his staff outside a Mark I tank which was used as Headquaters, near Flers, Troops with a tank at Flers-Courcelette, 1916. the tank, complained "my poor 'land battleships' have been let off The first three divisions of the Corps continued fighting on the Somme in September and October, suffering about 20,000 casualties overall after weeks of continued The Battle of Flers-Courcelette (September 1916) was a subsidiary attack of the Battle of the Somme. (The crewmen were given visors made of chainmail to protect them from hot splinters of metal but they found the visors uncomfortable so they rarely wore them.) destroy a tank. The Canadians also went into battle with the latest attempt to break the trench deadlock: the tank. carrier pigeons were used instead. this reduced number - a somewhat controversial decision, it having been First World War - Changing the fabric of our nation. This battle saw both New Zealand and Canadian divisions committed and the successful first employment of the tank.

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