Editing Battle of the Somme (section)

==== Battle of Morval, 25–28 September ====
{{Main|Battle of Morval}}

[[File:The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Q1308 (cropped).jpg|thumb|British troops moving up to the attack during the Battle of Morval, 25 September 1916.]]

The Battle of Morval was an attack by the Fourth Army on [[Morval, Pas-de-Calais|Morval]], [[Gueudecourt]] and [[Lesboeufs]] held by the German [[1st Army (German Empire)|1st Army]], which had been the final objectives of the [[Battle of Flers–Courcelette]] (15–22 September). The attack was postponed to combine with attacks by the French Sixth Army on [[Combles]], south of Morval and because of rain. The combined attack was also intended to deprive the German defenders further west, near Thiepval of reinforcements, before an attack by the Reserve Army, due on 26 September. Combles, Morval, Lesboeufs and Gueudecourt were captured and a small number of tanks joined in the battle later in the afternoon. Many casualties were inflicted on the Germans but the French made slower progress. The Fourth Army advance on 25 September was its deepest since 14 July and left the Germans in severe difficulties, particularly in a Salients, re-entrants and pockets salient near Combles. The Reserve Army attack began on 26 September in the [[Battle of Thiepval Ridge]].{{sfn|Philpott|2009|p = 383}}