<Tr> <Td> French </Td> <Td> 204,253 </Td> <Td> 50,756 </Td> <Td> - </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Total Allied </Td> <Td> 623,907 </Td> <Td> 146,431 </Td> <Td> - </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Germany </Td> <Td> 465,000--600,000 </Td> <Td> 164,055 </Td> <Td> 38,000 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Battle of the Somme was one of the costliest battles of World War I . The original Allied estimate of casualties on the Somme, made at the Chantilly Conference on 15 November 1916, was 485,000 British and French casualties and 630,000 German . A German officer wrote, </P>

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