Third Army (United Kingdom)

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The Third Army was a British Army unit.

[edit] World War I

In World War I the 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)