^* Percy Chappell was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his good work and was also given a battlefield commission. This was a rare honour; only four members of the various Somerset Light Infantry battalions received such commissions during the war.

^*On Sir Harry MacNaghten’s death, the baronetcy was inherited by his brother Douglas who was serving as a subaltern in the Rifle Brigade, but he was killed only ten weeks later near Delville Wood.

^* In all, nine v.c.’s were awarded for actions connected with the first day of the Somme Battle; six of these were posthumous awards. A full list is given in Appendix 5. During the First World War an average of two v.c.’s were awarded to British servicemen each week.

^* Public Record Office, CAB 45/191.

^* Public Record Office, CAB 45/189.

^† Harry Bloor received his first medical treatment that night, sixty hours after being wounded. He was discharged from the army after a year in hospital.

^* Public Record Office, CAB 45/188.

^† The four dead c.o.’s were Lieut-Cols. J. A. Thicknesse, 1st Somerset Light Infantry, L. C. W. Palk, 1st Hampshires; D. Wood, 1st Rifle Brigade and E. A. Innes, l/8th Royal Warwicks. The brigade had been reinforced for the battle by two Birmingham Territorial battalions and all its senior officers became casualties. The brigade commander (Prowse) and the four battalion commanders mentioned above were killed; the two remaining c.o.’s were wounded.

^* Capt. Craig’s brother, James Craig, later Lord Craigavon, became Northern Ireland’s first prime minister.

^* The Private Papers of Douglas Haig, 1914-1919, p. 153.

^* This was Maj.-Gen. I. Phillips, commander of the 38th (Welsh) Division, whose division was not in action on 1 July. The Official History makes no mention of any of these dismissals.

^† Public Record Office, CAB 46/190.

^* The townspeople of Accrington were only partly right; the Pals had suffered heavily, losing 585 men from approximately 700 who had gone into action.