Villers-Bretonneux (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁ bʁətɔnø]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. 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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The First Battle of Villers-Bretonneux (30 March – 5 April 1918), took place during Operation Michael, part of the German spring offensive on the Western...
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The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is the main memorial to Australian military personnel killed on the Western Front during World War...
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A7V (section Villers-Bretonneux)
(Abteilungen) of tanks were assigned to an attack in April 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux at the head of the four German divisions spread over a 6.4-kilometre...
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engagement between three German A7Vs and three British Mk. IVs at Villers-Bretonneux. Fuller's Plan 1919, involving massive use of tanks for an offensive...
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Battle of Villers-Bretonneux can refer to: Battle of Amiens (1870) (27 November 1870), also known as the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, during the Franco-Prussian...
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surviving example of an A7V. In April 1918, during a German attack at Villers-Bretonneux on the Western Front, it became stuck in a shell-hole and was abandoned...
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front of Villers-Bretonneux, the latest German objective. The battalion was not directly involved in the First Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, but on 18...
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nights of 19-20 and 20–21 April went into the line immediately east of Villers Bretonneux, the 24th brigade relieving the 158th Brigade of the 58th (2/1st London)...
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Romain (2017). "'They Attack Villers-Bretonneux and block the road to Amiens'. A French perspective on Second Villers-Bretonneux" In New Directions in War...
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Villers-Bretonneux is a railway station located in the commune of Villers-Bretonneux in the Somme department, France. The station is served by TER Hauts-de-France...
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Villers-Bouton, in the Haute-Saône département Villers-Bretonneux, in the Somme département Villers-Brûlin, in the Pas-de-Calais département Villers-Buzon...
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1918—Anzac Day—the battalion took part in an Allied counter-attack at Villers-Bretonneux, in France, where they suffered 389 casualties in two days of fighting...
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fought with his battalion at Dernancourt and Villers-Bretonneux. Shortly after the fighting at Villers-Bretonneux, Jensen was on patrol when he received a...
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capture. The allies, under General Gough, had established defences at Villers-Bretonneux. The village was strategically vital, as capture by the enemy would...
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Front at Messines and Ypres, against the German Spring Offensive, at Villers-Bretonneux and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive. On the outbreak of...
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First Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, but was in the front line when the German Second Army launched the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux on 24 April. The...
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The Battle of Amiens, also known as the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, was fought on 27 November 1870 between French and Prussian forces during the Franco-Prussian...
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centre, located near the village of Villers-Bretonneux (Somme) in northern France, is set behind the Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial and...
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battle was between Mk IV tanks and German A7Vs in the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux in April 1918. About 40 captured Mark IVs were employed by the Germans...
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original concept of pushing the BEF into the sea. The offensive ended at Villers-Bretonneux, to the east of the Allied communications centre at Amiens, where...
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London Gazette (No. 30922), 27 September 1918 Brillant is buried at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, France located 15 km (9 miles) east of...
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existence on 4 April, and travelled by rail with 58th Division to cover Villers-Bretonneux against the continuing German advance. Here the battalion was joined...
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railhead at Amiens, the German advance in the sector was checked around Villers-Bretonneux in early April. As the German offensive exhausted itself, in June...
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more of the Villers-Bretonneux plateau. The continued peaceful penetrations on the northern flank of the salient below Villers-Bretonneux caused the Germans...
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relieved by the French on 2/3 April and was moved by rail to cover Villers-Bretonneux against the continuing German advance. On 12 April, 173rd Bde was...
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Roland Haig (section Villers-Bretonneux)
Haig's brigade returned to the front line on 20 April, north of Villers-Bretonneux which was where the German advance had been halted. On the morning...
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brigade took part in an action at Moreuil Wood. Attacks on 4 April (Villers-Bretonneux, east of Amiens) and 5 April on the Third Army front were beaten back...
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attacked the German line between Villers-Bretonneux and Hamel, with the Canadian Corps on their right south of Villers-Bretonneux, and the British III Corps...
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