Editing First day on the Somme (section)

=====Beaumont-Hamel=====

{{main|Capture of Beaumont-Hamel#Beaumont-Hamel|l1=Beaumont Hamel|Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt}}

[[File:Ancre sector 1 July 1916.png|thumb|{{centre|The Ancre and Beaumont Hamel, 1 July 1916}}]]
The 29th Division attacked towards Beaumont-Hamel. Part of the attack was filmed and showed the detonation of a {{cvt|40000|lb|LT}} mine beneath Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt at {{nowrap|7:20 a.m.,}} ten minutes before the infantry attack.{{sfn|Malins|1920|pp=162–163}} The detonation of the mine alerted the Germans and British troops failed to occupy all of the mine crater before German troops could take over the far lip. Many troops of both brigades were shot down in no man's land, which was dominated by Redan Ridge and then caught by German artillery barrages. White German signal rockets were seen and taken for British success flares, which led the divisional commander, Major-General [[Beauvoir De Lisle]], to order the 88th Brigade from reserve to exploit the success. The brigade included the Newfoundland Regiment, which advanced on open ground from reserve trenches {{cvt|200|yd}} back from the British front line.{{sfn|Edmonds|1993|pp=424–437}}

The Newfoundland advance avoided the congestion of dead and wounded in communication trenches but many of the troops became casualties to German small-arms fire while still behind their front line. Some Newfoundland troops got across no man's land near Y Ravine but were held up by uncut wire.{{sfn|Edmonds|1993|pp=424–437}} Most of the German shelters and Beaumont-Hamel were derelict and shell-craters overlapped. Reserve Infantry Regiment 119, who had been sheltering under the village in {{lang|de|Stollen}} survived and with other units at {{lang|de|Leiling Schlucht}} (Y Ravine) and the {{lang|de|Leiling}} and {{lang|de|Bismarck}} dugouts, engaged the British troops from the wreckage of their trenches. The Newfoundlanders suffered {{nowrap|710 casualties,}} a {{nowrap|91 per cent}} loss, second only to that of the 10th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, which suffered {{nowrap|733 casualties}} at Fricourt, south of the Albert–Bapaume road.{{sfnm|1a1=Edmonds|1y=1993|1p=436|2a1=Hilliard Atteridge|2y=2003|2p=110}} The 29th Division suffered {{nowrap|5,240 casualties.}}{{sfn|Sheffield|2003|pp=49–50}}