Battle of the Somme (disambiguation)

Battles

Battle of the Somme commonly refers to the major Anglo-French offensive in 1916 during the First World War. The post-war Battles Nomenclature Committee divided this campaign into a series of battles (listed in the article above). According to official nomenclature, two offensives in 1918, the last year of the First World War, also use this name:

• the German offensive codenamed Operation Michael, known by the British as the First Battle of the Somme (1918)
• the Second Battle of the Somme (1918), the second phase of the final British offensive of the war (the Hundred Days Offensive)

Film

• The Battle of the Somme (film) is the 1916 documentary and propaganda film made by British official cinematographers Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell during the First World War, about the above 1916 offensive