Second Battle of the Somme

Second Battle of the Somme (1918)
	Part of the Western Front of World War I
	; British soldiers resupplying a Gun Carrier Mark I tank, named Kingston, at Miraumont 26 August 1918
Date	21 August – 3 September 1918
Location	Somme River, France
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents
British Empire Australia; Canada; United Kingdom; United States	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Douglas Haig; Henry Rawlinson; Arthur Currie; John Monash	Erich Ludendorff
Strength
British Third Army; British Fourth Army; United States II Corps	German Second Army
Casualties and losses
11,500 casualties; 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.

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