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    the tests of time andwars. Rebuilt as a chateau by Baron de Bertoult, during the reign of Louis XIV, the chateau was richly decorated and surrounded by...
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    Pro A (first-tier men's professional basketball league in France). The Château de Boulogne-sur-Mer (now a castle museum) of Boulogne, in the fortified...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Germans. Over 6,000 soldiers are buried in one of the largest German cemeteries in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. Carvin was awarded the Croix de Guerre...
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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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    Laventie CWGC cemetery. It has also been suggested that fighter ace Mick Mannock is buried in the same cemetery, as an unidentified British airman. Nelson...
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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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    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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    Regiment on 14 April 1917. Two chapels. Remains of an old chateau. Windmill British Cemetery The caribou monument to the Newfoundland Regiment The commemorative...
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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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    was occupied by German troops. British troops took over the Arras sector in March 1916. On April 9, 1917, the British operation "big push" led to advancement...
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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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    two military cemeteries that also have graves from the Second World War: The Bapaume Communal Cemetery The Bapaume Australian Cemetery houses the remains...
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    depuis 1968, INSEE Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fampoux. The CWGC cemetery at Fampoux South Africans buried in Fampoux British Cemetery v t e...
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    sixteenth century. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. The eighteenth-century chateau d’Écoivres. Remains of an abbey church, destroyed in 1783...
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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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    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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    along with the rest of the village, after World War I. The Warlencourt British Cemetery, in which over 3,000 soldiers who died during World War I are buried...
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    website/ Accessed 15 September 2014 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint-Venant. The CWGC graves in the churchyard The CWGC British cemetery v t e...
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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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    German and British tunnelling units. The rebuilt church of St.Pierre The war memorial Three Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries Communes of...
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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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    December 2023. INSEE commune file Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hébuterne. The CWGC cemetery v t e...
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    The CWGC maintains two cemeteries: The British Cemetery and the Indian and Chinese cemetery. There is also a British Cemetery in Douchy-lès-Ayette, about...
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    INSEE Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grévillers. The CWGC cemetery at Grévillers South Africans buried in Grevillers British Cemetery v t e...
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