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)
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