The Battle of the Somme

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Across
  1. 2. Haig had to divert the Germans away from here
  2. 5. Haig did not have these because they'd not been invented yet
  3. 8. The General who planned the battle
  4. 9. The guns that bombarded the German lines with shells
  5. 10. These were used by the Germans to spray bullets at the British soldiers
  6. 12. The soldiers the British were going to attack
  7. 14. They were dug deep underground but some failed to collapse the trenches
  8. 15. The place where General Haig launched his attacks
Down
  1. 1. The British soldiers were ordered to do this instead of running across
  2. 3. The area between the British and German trenches
  3. 4. The nickname given to General Haig after the battle
  4. 6. These soldiers were about to surrender to the Germans
  5. 7. It covered the German trenches; it should have been destroyed
  6. 11. Haig was called a butcher because there were millions of these on both sides
  7. 13. They failed to explode