On 14 July 1916 at 03.25 twenty thousand men of the 3rd and 7th Divisions moved forward up Caterpillar Valley to attack Delville Wood, whilst the 21st Division advanced on and captured Bazentin-le-Petit Wood.

The Gordon Cemetery contains a total of 97 graves of which 94 are of men of the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, of the 7th Division.  They were killed on 1 July 1916 and buried in their own support trench in a double semi-circle around the Cross of Sacrifice.

Flatiron Copse Cemetery at Mametz contains the graves of 1,520 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 30 from New Zealand, 17 from Australia, and one from South Africa.  There are 416 unnamed graves.  Special memorials are erected to 36 soldiers from the United Kingdom thought to be buried among them.

The 7th Division Memorial at Mametz has been erected by the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the Western Front Association.

On June 30, 1916 Fricourt was just inside the German front line.  It was attacked on 1 July, 1916 by the 17th Division.  By the end of that day it was caught between the 17th Division to its west, the 21st to the north and the 7th Division to the south.  The village was occupied by the 17th Division on 2 July 1916.

Munich Trench Cemetery is named after a German trench captured by the 7th Division on 11 January 1917.  The cemetery stands on high ground in an area containing a large number of war cemeteries.