The Battle of Amiens started at the end of World War One. It started on the 8th of August 1918 and finished then 11th of November 1918.
This is one of the soldiers, William Simms of Canada's 78th Battalion died in the Battle of Amiens in France on Aug. 11, 1918.
On the night of 7 August 1918, Gunner J.R. Armitage laid in readiness for the attack the next day. He wrote in his diary : It was utterly still. Vehicles made no sound on the marshy ground ... The silence played on our nerves a bit. As we got our guns into position you could hear drivers whispering to their horses and men muttering curses under their breath, and still the silence persisted, broken only by the whine of a stray rifle bullet or a long range shell passing high overhead ... we could feel that hundreds of groups of men were doing the same thing - preparing for the heaviest barrage ever launched.