Fritz von Below1 July 1916
Commands German Second Army at the opening of the Allied Somme attack.
Germany · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Commands German Second Army at the opening of the Allied Somme attack.
Takes command of German Second Army after German forces on the Somme are reorganised.
Takes command of the reorganised German Second Army south of the Somme.
Wounded in the thigh by a shell splinter near Bapaume and evacuated to hospital in Germany.
This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.