World War One
The men who lost their lives in the Somme area
From October 1914 the British Expeditionary Force progressively took over more of the Northern sector of the Allied Line and fought a series of attritional battles of which the greatest was the First Battle of the Somme which commenced on 1st July 1916. After the German offensive of late March to July 1918 had been contained, the advance to victory began on 8th August with the battle of Amiens and continued with the 2nd battles of both the Somme and Arras. Mobberley had one or two regular soldiers but in the main the men who served were volunteers and then conscripts. Fifty One men lost their lives and a further Two Hundred and Sixty Nine served and survived. Twenty-nine of those who died did so in the Somme area generally defined by the triangle formed by Amiens, Cambrai and Arras. They fought with many different regiments. Sixteen died during the First Battle of the Somme between July and September 1916, two during the First Battle of Arras in April 1917 and most of the remaining twelve between March 1918 when the German Spring Offensive was contained, through to the Advance to Victory in the Autumn of 1918.