Operations on the Ancre, January – March 1917

Quand

11 janv. 1917 – 13 mars 1917

Type

Opération militaire

Coordonnées

50.07° N, 2.70° E

Description

1917 military operation

1917 military conflict during World War I

Operations on the Ancre took place from 11 January to 13 March 1917, between the British Fifth Army and the German 1st Army, on the Somme front during the First World War. After the Battle of the Ancre, British attacks on the Somme front stopped for the winter. Until early January 1917, both sides were reduced to surviving the rain, snow, fog, mud fields, waterlogged trenches and shell-holes.

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