The Battle of Hébuterne, (La Bataille de Toutvent, La 2e Bataille d'Hébuterne, La bataille de Serre-Hébuterne) took place from 7 to 13 June 1915 on the...
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Hébuterne (French pronunciation: [ebytɛʁn]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France 24 kilometres (15 miles)...
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basketball, handball and taekwondo. Battle of Hébuterne — The French 2nd Army attacked German positions around Hébuterne, France to support the 10th Army...
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Beaumont Hamel–Hébuterne and for the Fourth Army to reach the Péronne–Bapaume road around Le Transloy and Beaulencourt–Thilloy–Loupart Wood, north of the Albert–Bapaume...
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Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt (category Battle of the Somme)
bombardment. As signs of an Allied offensive increased during 1916, the lessons of the Second Battle of Artois and the Battle of Hébuterne in 1915, were incorporated...
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suits"). Lessons learned during the battles in Artois and at the Battle of Hébuterne near Serre in 1915 and at the Battle of Verdun in 1916, were incorporated...
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Second Army had fought the Battle of Hébuterne (7–13 June) on a 1.2 mi (1.9 km) front at Toutvent Farm, to the west of Serre, against a salient held by the...
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Edmund Drake-Brockman (category Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia)
representing the Nationalist Party, and later served as a judge of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration from 1927 until his death in 1949...
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Second Army had fought the Battle of Hébuterne (7–13 June) on a 1.2 mi (1.9 km) front at Toutvent Farm, to the west of Serre, against a salient held by the...
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of Fricourt and work further south through Montauban to the river had not been completed by 1 July. For nearly a year after the Battle of Hébuterne,...
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and eastwards on the north bank of the Ancre, by attacking towards Puisieux on a front from Beaumont Hamel to Hébuterne, with the right flank meeting the...
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4th Division (Australia) (category Divisions of Australia in World War I)
There it repulsed the advancing Germans in several hard-fought battles at Hebuterne and Dernancourt. The 4th Brigade was detached from the division during...
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Attack on the Gommecourt Salient (category Battle of the Somme)
the village after being held up by uncut wire. A diversion, the Battle of Hébuterne, was conducted by XI Corps from 7 to 13 June 1915 at Ferme Toutvent...
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aircraft of IV and V brigades flew many sorties against much German fighter opposition. A 15 Squadron aircraft was attacked by five fighters near Hébuterne and...
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Thomas Axford (category Australian Army personnel of World War II)
heavily engaged in fighting around Hébuterne. In May he was awarded the Military Medal (MM). It was during the Battle of Hamel, on 4 July 1918, that the...
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Serre-lès-Puisieux (category Geography of the Pas-de-Calais)
kilometres (24 mi) northeast of Amiens and 14 kilometres (9 mi) north of Albert. Colincamps lies to the west, Hébuterne to the northwest, Puisieux to...
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north of the Ancre. In early October the north bank was held by the 39th Division of V Corps up to the boundary with the Third Army at Hébuterne. On 1...
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Battalion spent the rest of 1916 out of the line at Gézaincourt, Beauval, and Bayencourt, with spells in the trenches around Hébuterne and Courcelles in January...
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188th Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I)
evacuation of Gallipoli, the Royal Naval Division moved to France where it participated as 63rd Division in the final phase of the Battle of the Somme...
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On the morning of 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme during World War I, underground explosive charges planted by British tunnelling...
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Germans near Hébuterne in the centre of the Third Army sector. Travelling by train, bus and marching on foot, the remaining two brigades of the 4th Division...
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south to a section of the line around Hébuterne, Foncquevillers and Gommecourt. It was still in this area a year later when the Battle of the Somme began...
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56th (London) Infantry Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
trench warfare. After shaking down it took its place in the line in the Hébuterne sector. 56th Division's first operation as a complete formation was the...
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Portrait of Raymond Asquith (1878-1916) published in "the Sphere" on 23 September 1916, eight days after Asquith's death Ossuary at Serre-Hébuterne French...
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Wood, a forest north of Hebuterne, France Rossignol ENT, an experimental automatic rifle Battle of Rossignol, a World War I battle near Tintigny, Belgium...
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Bolton Artillery (category Artillery Volunteer Corps of the British Army)
the infantry went out of the line on 7 May. When the infantry returned on 7 June the division took up a wide sector from Hébuterne to Auchonvillers. 42nd...
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Joseph Brugère (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
Reserve Corps drove the group of the 81st, 82nd, 84th and 88th Territorial divisions (General Joseph Brugère) back from Hébuterne, Gommecourt and Monchy au...
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Reginald Judson (category New Zealand military personnel of World War II)
counterattack near Hebuterne. For this action, he was recommended for the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM). On 16 August, he was at the forefront of a bayonet...
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Vimy (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
department of Pas-de-Calais. Located 3.8 kilometers (2.4 mi) east of Vimy is the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge...
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artillery in the 1920s, the unit took part in the Battle of France and Dunkirk Evacuation in the early part of World War II, before returning to action in North...
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