Editing Battle of the Somme (section)

==== Battle of Guillemont, 3–6 September ====
{{Main|Battle of Guillemont}}
[[File:The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Q4172.jpg|thumb|British gunners watching German prisoners passing after the taking of Guillemont, 3 September 1916]]
The Battle of Guillemont was an attack on the village which was captured by the Fourth Army on the first day. Guillemont was on the right flank of the British sector, near the boundary with the French Sixth Army. German defences ringed the British salient at Delville Wood to the north and had observation over the French Sixth Army area to the south towards the Somme river. The German defence in the area was based on the second line and numerous fortified villages and farms north from [[Maurepas, Somme|Maurepas]] at Combles, Guillemont, Falfemont Farm, Delville Wood and High Wood, which were mutually supporting. The battle for Guillemont was considered by some observers to be the supreme effort of the German army during the battle. Numerous meetings were held by Joffre, Haig, Foch, General Sir [[Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson|Henry Rawlinson]] (commander of the British Fourth Army) and [[Émile Fayolle|Fayolle]] to co-ordinate joint attacks by the four armies, all of which broke down. A pause in Anglo-French attacks at the end of August, coincided with the largest counter-attack by the German army in the Battle of the Somme.{{sfn|Sheffield|2003|pp = 98–100}}