Mametz (French pronunciation: [mame]; Picard: Mamé) is a former commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. On 1 January 2019...
4 KB (298 words) - 15:15, 25 August 2024
Mametz may refer to: Mametz, Pas-de-Calais, France Mametz, Somme, France This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations...
102 bytes (46 words) - 11:35, 8 March 2021
The Mametz Wood Memorial commemorates an engagement of the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army during the First Battle of the Somme in France in...
9 KB (1,012 words) - 09:17, 16 October 2022
The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First...
87 KB (10,453 words) - 21:21, 28 July 2024
Corps took Montauban and reached all its objectives, XV Corps captured Mametz and isolated Fricourt. The III Corps attack on both sides of the Albert–Bapaume...
128 KB (17,896 words) - 15:43, 20 August 2024
The Welsh at Mametz Wood by Christopher Williams portrays the 11 July 1916 Charge of the Welsh Division at Mametz Wood, part of the Somme offensive. Painted...
4 KB (411 words) - 07:26, 19 June 2023
Army on the Western Front, during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Mametz is a village on the D 64 road, about 20 mi (32 km) north-east of Amiens...
62 KB (9,544 words) - 21:27, 22 May 2024
Somme (French pronunciation: [sɔm] ; Picard: Sonme) is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. It...
14 KB (843 words) - 02:31, 21 August 2024
Chapelle, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916, 18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont...
31 KB (3,166 words) - 16:52, 24 July 2024
Y (French pronunciation: [i] ee) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Y bears the shortest place name in France...
6 KB (427 words) - 08:07, 21 August 2024
area of the river Somme. Mametz Wood was to be the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the opening days of the Battle of the Somme as taking the wood...
98 KB (1,222 words) - 00:25, 9 June 2024
"The capture of Mametz, 1 – 5 July 1916". www.longlongtrail.co.uk. Retrieved 30 September 2016. Jones 2010, p. 130. "Battle of the Somme – 1916". BBC History...
66 KB (7,244 words) - 00:08, 1 August 2024
Carnoy-Mametz (French pronunciation: [kaʁnwa mame]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It was established on 1...
2 KB (98 words) - 20:12, 25 August 2024
Devonshire Cemetery (category Battle of the Somme)
Commonwealth troops killed during the Battle of the Somme. It is located near to the village of Mametz. The cemetery grounds were assigned to the British...
3 KB (311 words) - 15:25, 1 August 2023
near Fricourt and Mametz with the 7th Division (XV Corps). Before the battle, Malins worked at the north end of the British Somme sector, photographing...
33 KB (3,978 words) - 23:57, 28 July 2024
Dantzig Alley British Cemetery (category Cemeteries in Somme (department))
located near the village of Mametz, eight kilometres from Albert in the Somme department of France. The village of Mametz is located approximately eight...
6 KB (607 words) - 17:52, 20 August 2024
This is the order of battle for the Battle of the Somme. The Battle of the Somme was an offensive fought on the Western Front during World War I from 1...
91 KB (1,952 words) - 19:32, 1 June 2024
Bosworth, Leicestershire 16 March 2011 (2011-03-16) 236 42 "The Somme's Secret Weapon" Mametz, Somme, France 14 April 2011 (2011-04-14) 238 43 "Castle of the...
12 KB (252 words) - 19:52, 19 August 2024
Wales in the World Wars (section Mametz battle)
were killed, with particularly heavy losses of Welsh forces at Mametz Wood on the Somme and the Battle of Passchendaele. The 1st and 2nd battalions of...
25 KB (2,541 words) - 06:45, 7 July 2024
183rd Tunnelling Company (section The Somme 1915/16)
The First Day on the Somme. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-139071-0. Stedman, M. (2011) [1997]. Somme: Fricourt–Mametz. Battleground Europe. London:...
21 KB (2,285 words) - 22:17, 4 March 2024
British military history. Only in the southern sector, at Montauban and Mametz, did the British achieve their first-day objectives, advancing about 1 mile...
39 KB (5,531 words) - 11:09, 29 February 2024
tunnels which housed such weapons – located at Kiel Trench south-west of Mametz, and between Carnoy and Kasino Point – were damaged by German shellfire...
8 KB (890 words) - 20:22, 24 August 2023
110th Brigade (United Kingdom) (section Somme)
between Contalmaison and Mametz. The brigade was ordered to move on the night of 13/14 July to a position in front of Mametz Wood to attack Bazentin Wood...
71 KB (10,696 words) - 04:24, 18 June 2024
Memorial outside Wales (there is specific 38th Welsh Division Memorial at Mametz, Somme, France. It is the result of a three-year campaign by supporters of...
7 KB (931 words) - 07:21, 26 August 2024
Saint-Valery-sur-Somme (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ valʁi syʁ sɔm], literally Saint-Valery on Somme; Picard: Saint-Wary), commune in the Somme department, is...
10 KB (1,160 words) - 11:57, 22 August 2024
Leicestershire TBA 16 March 2011 (2011-03-16) 236 42 "The Somme's Secret Weapon" Mametz, Somme, France TBA 14 April 2011 (2011-04-14) 238 43 "Castle of...
80 KB (341 words) - 22:22, 25 June 2024
rediscovered the Vampire dugout and the successful dig in May 2010 at Mametz on the Somme for surviving pieces of a Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector. The...
9 KB (923 words) - 01:54, 31 July 2024
174th Tunnelling Company (section The Somme 1915/16)
Company, and concentrated on the Mametz sector instead. As Allied preparations were under way for the Battle of the Somme (1 July – 18 November 1916), the...
17 KB (1,934 words) - 22:10, 4 March 2024
Rumigny (French pronunciation: [ʁymiɲi]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Rumigny is situated some 6 miles...
2 KB (113 words) - 15:19, 25 August 2024
Flers is a commune near the northern edge of the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It lies to the south of the D929 road, between...
2 KB (114 words) - 13:21, 27 September 2022