Boursies (French pronunciation: [buʁsi]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Communes of the Nord department "Répertoire national des...
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of Arras – the 1st Division captured the last three villages (Hermies, Boursies and Demicourt) used by the Germans as outposts of the Hindenburg Line,...
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By early April 1917, there remained three German-held outpost villages—Boursies, Demicourt and Hermies—between the area to the south of the I Anzac Corps...
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Line) from Havrincourt to Quéant to occupy Noreuil, Lagnicourt, Morchies, Boursies, Doignies, Demicourt and Hermies until nightfall, to inflict casualties...
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broke through during the morning, along the Cambrai–Bapaume road in the Boursies–Louverval area and through the weak defences of the 59th Division near...
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France Frederick Hedges Bedfordshire Regiment 1918-10-2424 October 1918 Boursies, France Arthur Henderson Princess Louises's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)...
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Tra Bong, Vietnam AWM John Whittle 1917 First World War 12th Battalion Boursies, France AWM James Woods 1918 First World War 48th Battalion Le Verguier...
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November 1864, the eighth of ten children of Friedrich Meyer and Dorothea von Boursy. His father was a professor of German literature and the editor of the German-language...
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Colonel T. A. Blamey, planned the capture of the fortified villages of Boursies, Hermies and Demicourt during the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line...
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position and the Hindenburg Line. An attack to capture the villages of Boursies, Demicourt and Hermies by the 1st Australian Division was formulated to...
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26 November 1918 After the battle, the 1st Battalion was withdrawn to Boursies. Jackson, the lance corporal who had initially assisted Frisby that day...
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division, vested gules and azure and holding in her left arm the Baby Jesus. (Boursies, Cattenières, Carnières, Estrun, Maresches, Onnaing, Ors, Orsinval, Thun-l'Évêque...
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Anneux Aubencheul-au-Bac Awoingt Banteux Bantigny Bantouzelle Blécourt Boursies Cagnoncles Cambrai Cantaing-sur-Escaut Cauroir Crèvecœur-sur-l'Escaut Cuvillers...
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Counter-attacks failed but the troops in Boursies held on with reinforcements. A post in a chapel about 300 yd (270 m) east of Boursies was subjected to a determined...
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