Major General Maxse paid a handsome tribute to the men of 18th Division, writing that: '...their achievement will bear comparison with any similar fear of arms in this war.

The gallantry displayed by all ranks has been handsomely recognised by the award of numerous decorations and medals to the survivors, but I should be doing an injustice to heroic officers and men and incidentally to the 18th Division if I omitted to record in this official report my opinion of what was accomplished by those who fell in action.

They did more than their fair share towards the achievement of the success which the survivors alone celebrate.

Michael Stedman, Battleground Europe: Somme - Thiepval