Second Battle of the Somme

Second Battle of the Somme (1918)
Part of the Western Front of World War I

German soldiers supporting an injured Canadian soldier during the Second Battle of the Somme
Date21 August – 3 September 1918
Location
Somme River, France
Result Allied victory
Belligerents

 British Empire

 United States
 Germany
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Douglas Haig
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Henry Rawlinson
Canada Arthur Currie
Australia John Monash
German Empire Erich Ludendorff
Strength
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British Third Army
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British Fourth Army
United States United States II Corps
German Second Army
Casualties and losses
United States 11,500 casualties[1]
Canada 5,600 casualties
"Heavy", 6,000 taken prisoner

The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of the River Somme. It was part of a series of successful counter-offensives in response to the German Spring Offensive, after a pause for redeployment and supply.

The most significant feature of the two 1918 Somme battles was that with the failure of the first 1918 Somme Battle (not to be confused with the 1916 Battle of the Somme) having halted what had begun as a large German offensive, the second formed the central part of the Allies' advance to the Armistice of 11 November.

  1. ^ "United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919". Volume 1, page 36. US Government Printing Office. 1948.