British Third Army

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The British Third Army was a British Army unit.

[edit] World War I

In World War I the British Third Army fought on the Western Front, in France. The battles it took part in included:

• Battle of the Somme
• Battle of Cambrai
• Second Battle of Arras (April 1917)
• Battle of Amiens (August 1918)

[edit] Commanders

• General Edmund Allenby ( 23 October 1915 - 9 June 1917)
• General Sir Julian Byng (9 June 1917- 11 November 1918)