Chinese Labour Corps (category Military units and formations of the British Army in World War I)
the workers' camp of the British army, where a cholera outbreak and some of the fiercest battles occurred, as well. The cemetery contains 842 gravestones...
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Reservoir German Cemetery, Bapaume Road Cemetery, three cemeteries from along the Beaulencourt Road and Cloudy Trench Cemetery. Most of the interments were for...
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Battle of the Somme (category Use British English from February 2016)
Fourth Army to reach the Péronne–Bapaume road around Le Transloy and Beaulencourt–Thilloy–Loupart Wood, north of the Albert–Bapaume road. The Reserve Army...
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passes through the commune in a zig-zag then continues south-east to Beaulencourt. The D 930 goes east by north-east to Frémicourt. The D 929 branches...
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110th Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Use British English from May 2024)
from Beaulencourt. The offensive continued with the Second Battle of Bapaume. On 1 September 110th Bde put in a textbook attack on Beaulencourt. Taking...
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King's Regiment (Liverpool) (category Use British English from January 2013)
Lieutenant-Colonel Murray-Lyon, had just 60 men at his command when they arrived at Beaulencourt later in the day. On 28 March, the offensive was extended to Arras, which...
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of an Allied (French and British) armaments production conference. On 22 May 1940 during the Battle of France, two British Guards battalions and some...
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17th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Empire) (category Use British English from May 2024)
was relieved and went back for rest and training, with 5th Bde round Beaulencourt. It returned to the La Vacquerie sector on 22/23 January, occupying wet...
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fighter aircraft. Six days later, an Albatros D.V fell to his guns over Beaulencourt, France. On 23 May, he shared with Captain James Belgrave in the destruction...
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Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery (category Use British English from February 2015)
reinforced 42nd (EL) DA 8–15 May, then received orders to move north to Beaulencourt, deploying around Beaumetz. Here it supported trench raids and gas attacks...
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French) Website of the Communaupole de Lens-Liévin (in French) The Battle of Loos website The CWGC British cemetery The CWGC Dud Corner British cemetery...
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Churchill's Wizards - the British genius for deception, 1914 - 1945. London: Faber and Faber. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-571-22195-0. The CWGC cemetery Population en historique...
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historique depuis 1968, INSEE Wikimedia Commons has media related to Écoust-Saint-Mein. The CWGC British cemetery The CWGC Military cemetery The H.A.C cemetery...
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from the seventeenth century. The Duisans British Cemetery, a WW-I Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. The remnants of an old chateau. Communes...
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries and memorials. The Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial of the British Indian Army. Finds from the battlefield...
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dating from the sixteenth century. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. The eighteenth-century chateau d’Écoivres. Remains of an abbey church...
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one another'. The nearby six-hectare Étaples Military Cemetery is resting place to 11,658 British and Allied soldiers from the conflict. When the war artist...
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Over 150 war casualties (1914–1918) are commemorated at the Canadian cemetery here and 109 from the Battle of Vimy Ridge are buried here. The centennial...
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Neuville-Saint-Vaast. Official website of the commune (in French) The Commonwealth War Graves Commission British cemetery at Neuville-Saint-Vaast (La Targette)...
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and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023. INSEE commune file St. Pol British Cemetery on rue de Canteraine, CWGC North Staffs Regiment Officer selects the...
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village, after the First World War. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department "Répertoire national des élus:...
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are buried in Béthune Town Cemetery, the Commonwealth section of which was designed by Edwin Lutyens; the majority are British (2,933) or Canadian (55)...
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hamlets of La Fosse and Le Paradis. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department "Répertoire national des élus:...
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the British troops taking part in the attack comprised the 56th (1/1st London) and the 46th (North Midland) Divisions. The graves of the British casualties...
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Le Touquet (category Use British English from November 2023)
retrieved 1 December 2023 Monaco, Emily (8 September 2023). "A 'British' town outside Britain". BBC Travel. Retrieved 29 November 2023. Wikimedia Commons...
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were English. It was one of the main ports for British travellers to Europe. In World War I the British Expeditionary Force or BEF arrived in Calais on...
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a covered stadium, several gardens and parks, two movie theaters, two cemeteries, a Catholic church, a shopping center, a National Police station, a fire...
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Denis. The war memorial. The nearby Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. The nearby Canadian National Vimy Memorial Avion is twinned with: Doncaster...
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1st Worcestershire Artillery Volunteers (category Use British English from July 2022)
brigade HQ had moved up to Tincourt. On 16 May the brigade moved north to Beaulencourt and its batteries (together with some attached Australian batteries)...
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during their 1917 spring offensive. The Basilica of Notre Dame de Lorette cemetery, overlooking the nearby village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, likewise stands...
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