✦ History

Second Battle of the Somme

August 21 – September 2, 1918 · River Somme

Result Allied victory

Allied armies attacked the Germans along the Somme after the German Spring Offensive had stalled. Their advance pushed the German line back and was part of the series of offensives leading to the war's end.

On the map Overview Contemporaries

United Kingdom and allies

German Empire

Other

United Kingdom
United States
German Empire
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig military commander Arthur Currie military commander Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson military commander John Monash military commander
Erich Ludendorff military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties
11,500

Units

80th Training Command American Expeditionary Forces V Corps (United Kingdom) 1st Cavalry Division (United Kingdom) 27th Infantry Division (United States) 2nd Cavalry Division (United Kingdom) 2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 30th Infantry Division (United States) 33rd Infantry Division (United States) 4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division Guards Division (United Kingdom)
119th Infantry Division (German Empire) 121st Infantry Division (German Empire) 13th Division (German Empire) 16th Division (German Empire) 21st Division (German Empire) 22nd Division (German Empire)
23rd Division (German Empire) 24th Division (German Empire) 2nd Moroccan Division

Battles 1