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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Somme battlefields but some from as far north as Loos and as far south as Le Quesnel. The British Commonwealth graves have rectangular headstones made...

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...

Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, 1914. 37th (British) division memorial, Monchy-le-Preux, France, 1921. Her 1921 work Head of a Girl is included in the permanent...

"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...

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...

capture Beaumont-Hamel. He was killed by a shell on 25 April 1917 near Monchy-le-Preux, while recessing with two other officers in a communications trench...

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...

Gueudecourt (Newfoundland) Memorial Masnières Newfoundland Memorial Monchy-le-Preux (Newfoundland) Memorial South Africa Delville Wood South African National...

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...

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...