CHAPTER VI.
THE SOMME 1916 At the end of July the Division was at last relieved from the Salient, where it had suffered nearly 11,000 casualties during its thirteen months' sojourn, and went south by train to join the Fifth Army.
The greater part of August was spent on the Ancre, on the front opposite Beaumont-Hamel, making preparations for an attack which was eventually abandoned for a time.
After a short period in reserve the Division was moved, between 6th and 8th September, to join the XIV Corps, Fourth Army (Lt.-Gen.

Lord Cavan), to which corps it had for some time belonged up north.

The XIV Corps was the right corps of the British attack, and had its right on the north bank of the Somme.

In a succession of hard-fought battles the Fourth Army (Gen.

Sir H.S.