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    graves. Pronville German Cemetery No. 4, South of Pronville on the road to Beaumetz, contained 83 German and 83 British graves. 52 of the British graves...
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  • a number of war cemeteries and has now been numbered the D 930. After Beaumetz-lès-Cambrai the road becomes the N 30. The road crosses the A26 autoroute...
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    Amiens (section Roads)
    d'Amiens  [fr] or Amiens ring road. Initially constituting national roads which are downgraded today, mostly as departmental roads, the greater urban area of...
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    was visible from No 3 gun-pit. The battery's billets were pulled back to Beaumetz-lès-Cambrai, but even this was under harassing shellfire. On 14 December...
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    surrounded by hills to the east and to the west. To the south, the marshes are crossed by the Somme. The town has been a strategic location over the centuries...
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    then received orders to move north to Beaulencourt, deploying around Beaumetz. Here it supported trench raids and gas attacks, and bombardments by 44th...
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    Calais (section Road)
    Lafayette and was built in 1903 on a plot of land which was used as a cemetery between 1811 and 1871. The theatre opened in 1905. On the first floor of...
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    Le Touquet (section Road)
    average values crossed the €10,000 per square metre mark, higher than any other city in the department. Every year in February, an off-road motorcycle and...
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    commune is crossed by the old national road 29 (current RD 1029), perfectly rectilinear road following the route of the ancient Roman road linking Amiens...
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    kilometres (16 mi) southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D166 and the D167 roads. The Canal d'Aire flows past the commune, forming its southern border. The...
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    the D10E roads. The church of St. Pierre, rebuilt, along with the rest of the village, after World War I. The Warlencourt British Cemetery, in which...
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    Victoria Cross in fighting near Achiet-le-Grand in World War I. The church of St.John, dating from the twentieth century. A World War I cemetery. Communes...
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    lowest crossing point on the Somme and it was nearby that Edward III's army crossed shortly before the Battle of Crécy in 1346. Just halfway between Rouen...
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    secretary's office. On the other side of the D95, that crosses the town, is the 'old cemetery', surrounded by a brick wall, where rest the remains of...
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    France. La Vicogne is situated 12 miles (19 km) north of Amiens, on the N25 road. Communes of the Somme department "Répertoire national des élus: les maires"...
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