Lesbœufs (French pronunciation: [lebø]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Lesbœufs is situated on the D74 road...
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The Capture of Lesbœufs (French pronunciation: [lebø]) [25 September 1916] was a tactical incident in the Battle of the Somme. Lesbœufs was a village on...
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(first objective) was 500 yd (460 m) west of Lesbœufs, the brown line was from the crossroads south of Lesbœufs, along the western edge of the village and...
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Albert, 4 mi (6.4 km) south of Bapaume, to the east of Martinpuich, west of Lesbœufs and to the north-east of Delville Wood. The village is on the D 197 from...
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Ginchy Guillemont (1,1km) Longueval (2,1km) Combles (2,7km) Morval (3,0km) Lesbœufs (3,1km) Flers, Somme (3,1km) Hardecourt-aux-Bois (3,8km) Maurepas, Somme...
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20th (Light) Division (section Morval and Lesbœufs)
opposite Lesbœufs and the 60th in reserve. The objective was a trench line around 1,200 yards (1,100 m) west of the villages of Morval and Lesbœufs and was...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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attacked an intermediate line and the German third line to take Morval, Lesboeufs and Gueudecourt, which was combined with a French attack on Frégicourt...
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eldest son, Harry Wilson Verelst, was killed aged 26 at the Capture of Lesbœufs in 1916. Verelst's only surviving son, Rodney Wilson Verelst, inherited...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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Bouchavesnes, the Fourth Army (General Henry Rawlinson) had taken Morval, Lesbœufs and Gueudecourt in the centre and the Reserve Army (Lieutenant-General...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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France Robert Downie Royal Dublin Fusiliers 1916-10-2323 October 1916 Lesboeufs, France Martin Doyle Royal Munster Fusiliers 1918-09-022 September 1918...
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took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 23 October 1916 east of Lesboeufs, France, when most of the officers had become casualties, Sergeant Downie...
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for Mouquet Farm Capture of Martinpuich Capture of Combles Capture of Lesbœufs Capture of Gueudecourt Capture of Eaucourt l'Abbaye Capture of Le Sars...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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Division on the right advanced to the area of Bull's Road between Flers and Lesbœufs, in the centre the 41st Division, the newest division in the BEF, captured...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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Étricourt-Manancourt Flers Ginchy Gueudecourt Guillemont Hardecourt-aux-Bois Hem-Monacu Lesbœufs Longueval Maricourt Maurepas Mesnil-en-Arrouaise Montauban-de-Picardie...
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Étricourt-Manancourt Flers Ginchy Gueudecourt Guillemont Hardecourt-aux-Bois Hem-Monacu Lesbœufs Longueval Maricourt Maurepas Mesnil-en-Arrouaise Montauban-de-Picardie...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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village and 200 German prisoners, the rest withdrawing towards Flers and Lesbœufs. Some of the Irish pursued the Germans, until they were recalled, to consolidate...
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on the Le Sars–Le Transloy road, north-east of Flers and north-west of Lesbœufs. Behind Gueudecourt lay open country which had hardly been shelled with...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Somme (section Guards Division Memorial on the road from Ginchy to Lesboeufs)
month of September 1916 in the actions that took place at Ginchy and Lesboeufs" On the rear is another inscription, which reads "This memorial replaces...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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Languevoisin-Quiquery Laucourt Laviéville Lawarde-Mauger-l'Hortoy Léalvillers Lesbœufs Liancourt-Fosse Licourt Liéramont Liercourt Ligescourt Lignières Lignières-Châtelain...
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German resistance and counter-attacks to capture Ginchy, Deville Wood and Lesbœufs but were held up by determined resistance at Morval. Following a day-long...
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