sustained in West Flanders on 15 July 1917. Strong was buried in Croisilles Railway Cemetery. Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888...
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mid-19th century, the Bradshaw railway guide was describing Étaples as 'a decayed fishing port, on a sandy plain'. The railway between Amiens and Boulogne...
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twentieth century. The war memorial. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. Hénin-Beaumont is twinned with: Konin, Poland Herne, Germany Wakefield...
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Jules Dumont d'Urville (category Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery)
Condé. His mother Jeanne Françoise Victoire Julie (1754–1832) came from Croisilles, Calvados, and was a rigid and formal woman from an ancient family of...
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l'Amiral Mountbatten (1836) A Monumental Cross at Rue du Calvaire (1901) A Cemetery (1857) The Parish Church of Saint Peter (19th century) The Church contains...
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began using the term, defining it as extending for 150 miles between Cape Croisilles and Cape King William, and 30–50 miles inland to the mountains of Mana-Boro-Boro...
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more than 100 civilians. Over 3,200 casualties are buried in Béthune Town Cemetery, the Commonwealth section of which was designed by Edwin Lutyens; the majority...
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Hedwig's, in the Opernplatz, Berlin, Antoinette married Claude-Philippe Croisilles de Saint-Huberty, who claimed to be Prince Henry of Prussia's chargé d'affaires...
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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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was running short in the Eastern Cemetery in spite of repeated extensions to the south and the site of the new cemetery at Terlincthun was chosen. It also...
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churches, of St. Druon and St.Barbe. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. Jacques Secrétin, international table tennis player, was born in Carvin...
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left, with orders to press the attack next morning round the north of Croisilles up to the Hindenburg Line (the Battle of the Scarpe). The attack was to...
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31 August 2015. Saudemont 2011, p. 24. "Le Touquet-Paris Plage Communal Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 14 November 2023. "Histoires...
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going forwards, and went into action on 23 March at Ervillers, shelling Croisilles and Écoust. The battery had been ordered to come under 4th HAG on 21 March...
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villages. On 2 April 62nd Bde took part in 'pinching out' the village of Croisilles, an outpost of the Hindenburg Line, after which 110th Bde took over the...
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responsible for the line from the Scarpe to Croisilles and Gruppe Quéant (XIV Reserve Corps) from Croisilles to Mœuvres. Divisions would move into the area...
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unfortunately closed to the public. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery, which contains the graves of 11 Commonwealth war dead of the Second World...
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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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On 9 April the British Third Army attacked to the east of Arras from Croisilles to Ecurie, against Observation Ridge, north of the Arras–Cambrai road...
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from the south Cemetery gate The side entrance Features on the spire The nave The font The Chemin de fer d'Anvin à Calais opened a railway station at Merck-Saint-Lièvin...
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the canals of northern Europe to the east. The area is also served by railway. The metal industry has marked the landscape and was a source of significant...
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Arras (section Railway station)
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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became history when the railway line was built along the south side of the estuary of the river Dives. In fact, the railway was built on the retaining...
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town's museum, alongside fragments of a mammoth tusk found not far from the cemetery. Other evidence of human presence in the area at different periods of prehistory...
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north wall of the medieval church of Saint-Julien, the discovery of a cemetery and three granite sarcophagi dating from the High Middle Ages. In addition...
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The Canadian military cemetery of Bény-Reviers is the resting place of 2,043 Canadians and 1 Frenchman. The land for this cemetery was donated by France...
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shot down his second enemy aircraft, another Roland two-seater, over Croisilles. He gained his fourth and fifth aerial victories, which made him an ace...
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the ruins of a Gallo-Roman Villa which would be located near the modern cemetery. Until the end of the 17th century there was a small harbour at the mouth...
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Rang-du-Fliers had everything to make a commune: a church (1864), a priest, a cemetery, a station, a school and a factory that encouraged more and more workers...
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dating from the twentieth century. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department "Répertoire national des élus:...
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