Monchy-le-Preux (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃ʃi lə pʁø]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Monchy-le-Preux...

Monchy-le-Preux is a hamlet in the commune of Campneuseville, in the Seine-Maritime department of France. It was a former commune of Normandy, and has...

50°16′14″N 2°53′36″E / 50.27056°N 2.89333°E / 50.27056; 2.89333 The Monchy-le-Preux Memorial is a Dominion of Newfoundland war memorial that commemorates...

mounted, over open country, to occupy high ground east and northeast of Monchy-le-Preux, a key position between the rivers Scarpe and Sensée. The Essex Yeomanry...

Oise department Monchy-Lagache, a commune in the Somme department Monchy-le-Preux, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department Monchy-le-Preux (hamlet), a hamlet...

British were able to consolidate these gains and push forward towards Monchy-le-Preux, although they suffered many casualties in fighting near the village...

deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 19 May 1917 at Monchy-le-Preux, France, Sergeant White, realising during an attack that one of the...

deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 11 April 1917 at Monchy-le-Preux, France, under intense fire, Lance-Corporal Mugford got his machine-gun...

ground for the dead of World War I located near to the commune of Monchy-le-Preux on the main Arras to Cambrai road (D339) in the département of Pas-de-Calais...

Regiment and as the unit's Acting Commanding Officer during the Battle of Monchy-le-Preux in April 1917. When he was 33 years old, and an acting lieutenant colonel...

one at Beaumont-Hamel; the Gueudecourt (Newfoundland) Memorial, the Monchy-le-Preux (Newfoundland) Memorial; and the memorial at Masnières. The Belgian...

to Monchy, followed by 10th RF, who stormed into the village itself about 11.00. The official historian described the capture of Monchy-le-Preux as 'one...

the King's Own Scottish Borderers when he was severely wounded at Monchy-le-Preux in 1917. In 1919, he was appointed secretary to the Newfoundland High...

August Battle of the Scarpe – 26–30 August (including the capture of Monchy-le-Preux) Battle of the Canal du Nord – 27 September – 1 October (including...

made by the men from Newfoundland is to be found in the village of Monchy Le Preux. On the ruins of what was a German bunker stands a bronze caribou which...

victory Monchy-le-Preux, Pas-de-Calais, France 1917 British Empire German Empire After a German counterattack at the village of Monchy-le-Preux, a desperate...

joined the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in 1916 and was wounded at Monchy-le-Preux. He returned to the family business in Newfoundland and later served...

Canadian Corps advanced over 5 kilometres and captured the towns of Monchy-le-Preux and Wancourt. Lieutenant Charles Smith Rutherford VC MC MM from the...

guerre [War songs and poems]. Paris: Bloud et Gay. "Guerre 14 18 en Alsace – Le symbole du bleuet" [14-18 war in Alsace – the bleuet symbol]. alsace1418.fr...

only two departments in which the candidate of the Front National, Marine Le Pen, received a majority of the votes cast: 52.06%. There are currently two...

War I. Theatres and cultural centres include Le théâtre municipal, Le Centre Culturel Gérard Philipe, Le Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental (CRD)...

whose service met the strict official criteria. Lazare Ponticelli died in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre on 12 March 2008, aged 110. A Very Long Engagement, a French...

"L'ossuaire de Douaumont" La nécropole nationale et l'ossuaire de Douaumont (55), Les chemins de mémoire, Ministry of Defence, n.d. Accessed 2012-06-01. Wikimedia...

on light duty, until 30 June 1917. Thurlow was killed in action at Monchy-le-Preux in April 1917; Richardson was blinded at Arras the same month, and...

the Somme at Gueudecourt in October 1916; and on 23 April 1917, at Monchy-le-Preux during the Battle of Arras, where they lost 485 men in a day but checked...

On the opposite side of the border is Morgan, Montana. Monchy was named after Monchy-le-Preux in France in commemoration of WWI battles fought there by...

the French at Arras were pushed back from Guémappe, Wancourt and Monchy-le-Preux, until the arrival of X Corps. By 1 October, two more French corps...

high ground near Monchy-le-Preux on 1 October. The French were then slowly pushed back from Guémappe, Wancourt and Monchy-le-Preux, until the arrival...

massed mounted cavalry attacks on Monchy-le-Preux on the morning of 11 April 1917, during the Battle of Arras. Monchy-le-Preux was one of the keys to the northern...

18 pdr battery under fire near Monchy-le-Preux, Second Battle of the Scarpe, 24 April...