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    Loos-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. It is a former coal mining town, three miles northwest...
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    flatter and eroded, especially if vegetation has established itself. In Loos-en-Gohelle, in the former mining area of Pas-de-Calais, France, are a series of...
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  • Look up loos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Loos may refer to: Loos, Nord, France Loos-en-Gohelle, France Loos, British Columbia, Canada Loos (surname)...
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    Givenchy-en-Gohelle (French pronunciation: [ʒivɑ̃ʃi ɑ̃ ɡɔɛl]; Picard: Givinchy-in-Gohelle) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France...
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    (Loos-en-Gohelle) and 7 (Mazingarbe) were totally destroyed. All the other mines were damaged by the artillery fire. The rotunda at Loos-en-Gohelle, a...
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    break through the weaker German defences and capture the village of Loos-en-Gohelle, mainly due to numerical superiority. Supply and communications problems...
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    The Loos Memorial is a World War I memorial forming the sides and rear of Dud Corner Cemetery, located near the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, in the Pas-de-Calais...
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    Western Front during the First World War, at Auchy-les-Mines near Loos-en-Gohelle in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. Named after the House of...
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    being decisively rejected for poor eyesight. His death at the Battle of Loos caused his family immense grief. Born in 1897, Kipling was the youngest of...
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    Third Army. After formation the company moved into Hill 70 sector near Loos-en-Gohelle, where it joined 173rd Tunnelling Company. Until April 1917, both units...
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    Léon Louyet (Loos-en-Gohelle, France, 7 July 1906 — Charleroi, 19 March 1973) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In 1933 he won two stages...
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  • was killed during the Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt in the Battle of Loos. As he led an attack on the German lines, his leg was blown off by a barrage...
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    Retrieved 31 March 2017. The ridge runs in a direction from Givenchy-en-Gohelle in the north-west to Farbus in the south-east. Sciolino, Elaine (12 February...
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    Montigny-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France 7 miles (11 km) east of Lens. Hrastnik Stollberg...
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    Fouquières-lès-Lens Givenchy-en-Gohelle Gouy-Servins Grenay Harnes Hulluch Lens Liévin Loison-sous-Lens Loos-en-Gohelle Mazingarbe Méricourt Meurchin...
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    Sains-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Sains-en-Gohelle is an ex-coalmining town, nowadays...
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    Retrieved 31 March 2017. The ridge runs in a direction from Givenchy-en-Gohelle in the north-west to Farbus in the south-east. Hakim, Joy (1995). A History...
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    Loison-sous-Lens (62523) Loos-en-Gohelle (62528) Mazingarbe (62563) Méricourt (62570) Meurchin (62573) Montigny-en-Gohelle (62587) Noyelles-Godault (62624)...
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  • May 1957 in Loos-en-Gohelle, Pas-de-Calais) is a French politician and a member of Europe Écologie–The Greens. He is Mayor of Loos-en-Gohelle since 2001...
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  • varies from 27m (Lens) to 74m (Loos-en-Gohelle) for an average altitude of 33m. The canton comprised 2 communes: Loos-en-Gohelle Lens (partly) Cantons of Pas-de-Calais...
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    discovered in Lens after surveys were carried out at Annay, Courrières and Loos-en-Gohelle. This led to the expansion of the city into an important industrial...
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  • Wolfgang Loos (born 1955), German Luftwaffe fighter ace Loos for places called Loos Loos Memorial near Loos-en-Gohelle in French Flanders Loos & Co., American...
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  • who played for Sussex. He was born in Wandsworth Common and died in Loos-en-Gohelle, France, during the First World War. He appeared in 19 first-class...
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    long ("obstinate defence") and ordered that the town's population be killed en masse.[citation needed] He agreed, however, to spare them, on condition that...
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    Dauzat; Charles Rostaing (1968). Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France. éditions Larousse. p. 4. The House of Commons: 1509–1558, Volume 4;...
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    eighth round and one qualifier for the round of 64. US Saint-Maurice Loos-en-Gohelle (6) v US Saint-Omer (5) Gazélec Ajaccio (4) v AS Furiani-Agliani (5)...
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  • Battle of the Somme on 18 August 1916, while defending a salient near Loos-en-Gohelle. He is buried at the Philisophe British Cemetery at Mazingarbe. "Player...
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    KMK Battery 4 remained at Verdun, while Battery 1 attacked Arras and Loos-en-Gohelle in June and July. In the last two years of the war, siege guns saw...
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    France On 8 April 2017 the Battle of Hill 70 Memorial was unveiled at Loos-en-Gohelle, France, the central pathway named the Konowal Walk.[citation needed]...
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    trenches in front of Loos-en-Gohelle from the French. This was the sector selected for the next major British attack (the Battle of Loos), for which a complex...
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