The Capture of Trônes Wood (8–14 July) was an action in the First World War fought by the British Fourth Army and the German Second Army, during the Battle of the Somme. Trônes Wood lay on the northern slope of Montauban ridge, between Bernafay Wood and Guillemont. The wood dominated the southern approach to Longueval and Trônes Alley, a German communication trench which ran between Bernafay Wood and the northern tip of Trônes Wood to Guillemont. A light railway ran through the centre, which was in a dip, formed by the east end of Caterpillar Valley sloping away to the west. The wood was pear-shaped, with a base about wide on Montauban ridge, the rest of the wood running north for about , coming to a point on a rise towards Longueval village. The wood had dense undergrowth which retarded m