The First Battle of Dernancourt was fought on 28 March 1918 near Dernancourt in northern France during World War I. It involved a force of the German 2nd...
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Second Battle of Dernancourt, known to the Germans as Unternehmen Sonnenschein (Operation Sunshine), was fought on 5 April 1918 near Dernancourt in northern...
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War I. The First and Second Battles of Dernancourt were fought there. 127 Commonwealth soldiers are buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery and 2167...
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First Battle of Dernancourt, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the north. With the vital railhead at Amiens under threat, on 25 March two divisions of the...
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4th Division (Australia) (category Divisions of Australia in World War I)
around Bresle and Ribemont-sur-Ancre. On 28 March, during the First Battle of Dernancourt, the 12th brigade helped fight off an attack by the 50th Reserve...
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Marcel Aurousseau (category Academic staff of the University of Western Australia)
also served at the Battle of Messines, the Third Battle of Ypres (Polygon Wood), the First Battle of Dernancourt (part of the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux)...
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The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux (also Actions of Villers-Bretonneux, after the First Battles of the Somme, 1918) took place from 24 to 27 April...
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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This article lists all the battles that...
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William Maughan (footballer) (category British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme)
wounds at a Casualty Clearing Station in Dernancourt, France on 2 October 1916. Maughan was buried in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension. Joyce, Michael...
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Somme (department) (redirect from Department of Somme)
horrors of modern war with the release of the propaganda film The Battle of the Somme, which used actual footage from the first days of the battle. The Somme...
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5th Division (Australia) (category Divisions of Australia in World War I)
returning to the front in the middle of June, taking up positions between Dernancourt and Sailly-Laurette. During the Battle of Hamel on 4 July, the division...
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effective blockade of the British Isles and France with U-boats and raiders. The largest naval battle of the First World War was the Battle of Jutland which...
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49th Battalion (Australia) (section Battle honours)
in repelling a German attack there during the Second Battle of Dernancourt, where in the words of author Chris Coulthard-Clark, the 4th Division "faced...
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Thomas James Harris (category British Army personnel of World War I)
the first gun and killed the crew, but was himself killed when attacking the second one. It was largely due to the great courage and initiative of this...
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38th Battalion (Australia) (section Battle honours)
In late March, the battalion took part in a defensive action around Dernancourt. After the offensive had been halted, in August the Allies launched the...
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2nd Division (Australia) (category Infantry divisions of Australia)
which had just fought the First and Second Battles of Dernancourt. The detached 5th Brigade (under the command of the British Fourth Army) was initially put...
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37th Battalion (Australia) (section Battle honours)
In late March, the battalion took part in a defensive action around Dernancourt. Finally the German offensive stalled and, after a period, the Allies...
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Arthur Allen (general) (category Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
setting a fine example of initiative and organising ability. He continued to lead men in combat, at the Battle of Dernancourt in April 1918, and then...
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Australians were involved in actions at Dernancourt, Morlancourt, Villers-Bretonneux, Hangard Wood, Hazebrouck, and Hamel. Of these actions, the last one, at...
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Edward Francis Lynch (category Australian military personnel of World War I)
signalling parties who suffer casualties. Nulla first sees action at Dernancourt in the latter months of the Battle of the Somme. He describes support and front...
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Arthur Marindin (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
series of fighting withdrawals since being committed to battle on 25 March 1918 near Cléry-sur-Somme, some 13 miles (21 km) east of Dernancourt. He was...
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Jørgen Jensen (soldier) (category Australian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
Australian troops during the war" during the Second Battle of Dernancourt. The fighting at Dernancourt was followed by a move to the Villers-Bretonneux sector...
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Caleb Shang (category Australian military personnel of World War I)
divisions of German troops and suffered 1,230 casualties. Despite these losses, the fierce resistance of the 4th Australian Division at Dernancourt and the...
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Germans had pushed to within 50 miles (80 km) of Paris. During this time the Australians fought at Dernancourt, Morlancourt, Villers-Bretonneux, Hangard Wood...
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Philip Howell (category British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme)
previous day he had visited the front line trenches of his regiment the 4th Hussars at Dernancourt. Howell received some approbation in the published obituaries...
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Germans had pushed to within 50 miles (80 km) of Paris. During this time the Australians fought at Dernancourt, Morlancourt, Villers-Bretonneux, Hangard Wood...
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decorated soldier of the Gallipoli campaign. His Victoria Cross was posthumously awarded after Shout died of his wounds during the Battle of Lone Pine. Another...
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Ovillers-la-Boisselle (category Communes of Somme (department))
Gordon Dump Cemetery Lochnagar Crater, one of the sites of the mines exploded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. William Orpen: Mines and the Bapaume...
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John Whitham (category Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
Service Order (DSO) during the First World War for his heroic actions during the Hundred Days Offensive in the final days of the war. The citation for the...
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Thiepval (category Communes of Somme (department))
Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, a major war memorial to British and Commonwealth men who died in the First World War Battle of the Somme and who have...
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