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    Laventie (French pronunciation: [lavɑ̃ti]; West Flemish: Wentie) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France....
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    The Kensingtons at Laventie is a large oil painting on glass by Eric Kennington completed in 1915 that depicts a First World War platoon of British troops...
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  • The Canton of Laventie was one of the 14 cantons of the arrondissement of Béthune, in the Pas-de-Calais department, in northern France. It had 18,792 inhabitants...
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    British Indian soldiers digging trenches in Laventie, France, 1915...
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    took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 12 September 1918 near Laventie, France, when his company was held up by enemy machine-gun fire at short...
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    Tunnelling Company relieved the 255th Tunnelling Company in May 1916 in the Laventie-Fauquissart sector in northern France. In early November 1916, the 3rd...
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    Labeuvrière (62479) Labourse (62480) Lambres (62486) Lapugnoy (62489) Laventie (62491) Lespesses (62500) Lestrem (62502) Lières (62508) Liettres (62509)...
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    day was magnificent. He was buried in the Royal Irish Rifles Churchyard, Laventie, France in Plot VI. Row C. Grave 17. His Victoria Cross is at the Eastbourne...
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    Landrethun-le-Nord Landrethun-lès-Ardres Lapugnoy Lattre-Saint-Quentin Laventie Lebiez Lebucquière Léchelle Ledinghem Lefaux Leforest Lenssubpr Lépine...
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    Second Army in the Ypres Salient. It moved into the Fauquissart area near Laventie in northern France. Mining and counter-mining had been going on at Hill...
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    Landrethun-le-Nord Landrethun-lès-Ardres Lapugnoy Lattre-Saint-Quentin Laventie Lebiez Lebucquière Léchelle Ledinghem Lefaux Leforest Lenssubpr Lépine...
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  • Catch Wrestling Alliance [fr], a European wrestling federation, based in Laventie in the Hauts-de-France This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    neighbouring Nord département, particularly in the areas of Estaires, La Gorgue, Laventie and Merville, from which birds were supplied to Lille. A breeders' club...
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    Later his remains were re-interred in the Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard at Laventie, near Armentières. In 2003, he was posthumously inducted into the Scottish...
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    Lamp-Neuve-Chapelle sector. 255th Tunnelling Company next saw action in the Laventie-Fauquissart sector in northern France, where 173rd Tunnelling Company had...
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    Switzerland (1959) Hall in Tirol, Austria (1967) Auchel, France (1975) Laventie, France (1975) Nyíregyháza, Hungary (1989) Novocherkassk, Russia (1990)...
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    Landrethun-le-Nord Landrethun-lès-Ardres Lapugnoy Lattre-Saint-Quentin Laventie Lebiez Lebucquière Léchelle Ledinghem Lefaux Leforest Lenssubpr Lépine...
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    II Anzac, IX, X and VIII corps, held the Western Front in Flanders from Laventie to Boesinghe, with eleven divisions and up to two in reserve. There was...
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    During his convalescence, he spent six months painting The Kensingtons at Laventie, a group portrait of his own infantry platoon, Platoon No 7, 'C' Company...
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    would attack in the southern half of their front line, near the village of Laventie. The objective, in the flat and poorly drained terrain, was Aubers Ridge...
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  • acclaim that Eric Kennington received when his painting The Kensingtons at Laventie was first exhibited in London in April 1916 prompted Charles Masterman...
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    Microbiology. 151 (Pt 12): 3873–3880. doi:10.1099/mic.0.27955-0. PMID 16339933. Laventie BJ, Sangermani M, Estermann F, Manfredi P, Planes R, Hug I, et al. (January...
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    Landrethun-le-Nord Landrethun-lès-Ardres Lapugnoy Lattre-Saint-Quentin Laventie Lebiez Lebucquière Léchelle Ledinghem Lefaux Leforest Lenssubpr Lépine...
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  • the Hills and Vales Along', Rifleman Kulbir Thapa, The Kensingtons at Laventie by Eric Kennington, Cape Helles Gallipoli, London Irish Rifles' football...
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  • V, Lafay L, Borys JM, Karlsson J, Ducimetière P, Charles MA; Fleurbaix Laventie Ville Sante Study Group. The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 is able...
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    177–191. doi:10.1016/S0168-6445(99)00035-2. PMID 10717313. S2CID 21361399. Laventie, Benoît-Joseph; Jenal, Urs (8 September 2020). "Surface Sensing and Adaptation...
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    ISBN 0-7509-1980-9. Kipling, Rudyard (1997) [1923]. "1915 La Bassée to Laventie". The Irish Guards in the Great War, Vol. 1. Spellmount Limited. Clarke...
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    2 Gezaincourt Bagneux British Cemetery Haute-Avesnes British Cemetery Laventie Military Cemetery Le Portel Communal Cemetery 1 Les Rues-des-Vignes Communal...
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    near Mannock's crash site and reburied in Plot III, Row F, Grave #12 of Laventie CWGC war cemetery, could be those of Mick Mannock. A pencil drawing, reputed...
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    lieutenant on 7 April 1915. On 13 April 1915, he was killed in action near Laventie, three weeks after arriving in France. He was shot by a sniper. He was...
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