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By the end of this phase of the Battle of the Somme, which amounted to the first five days, Sir Douglas Haig in a despatch wrote: ''“On a front of over 6 miles, from the Biqueterie to La Boisselle, our troops had swept over the whole of the enemy’s first and strongest system of defence, which he had done his best to render impregnable. They had driven him back over a distance of more than a mile, and had carried four elaborately fortified villages……the enemy’s second main system had been captured on a front of over 3 miles. We had again forced him back more than a mile and had gained possession of the southern crest of the main ridge on a front of 6000 yards”''.<ref name="ftn14">Wylly, p.88</ref>
On the 8th July the Battalion move to the [[rest camp]] at Acheux and did not take part of the remainder of the first phase of the Battle of the Somme. They would find themselves on a new front further north in Flanders, Belgium.
==See also==
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