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Map showing daily gains during Battle of the Somme

Each great attack on the Somme in 1916 brought gains of only a mile or two, and these were at enormous human cost.

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  • Poppy field, village of Pas, Somme 1918
    Battle of the Somme

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Peter MacDonald

Posted: 07 Oct 2010

this is an example of how television weather maps got their name and their terminology, as WW1 Trench Maps resembled the early tv weather maps and so gained terms like weather front etc.