The Bapaume Post Military Cemetery (French: Cimetière militaire de Bapaume Post, Albert) is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating...
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The Bapaume Communal Cemetery (French: Cimetière communal de Bapaume) is a cemetery located in the French commune of Bapaume (Pas-de-Calais). It is in...
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Cecil Wedgwood (category British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme)
21-year-old bandsman and stretcher bearer. He is buried at the Bapaume Post Military Cemetery in Albert, Somme.[citation needed] He was succeeded as chairman...
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Messines, 1917 Ypres, 1917 Menin Road Passchendaele Cambrai, 1917 St. Quentin Bapaume, 1918 Amiens Albert, 1918 Hindenburg Line Épehy Pursuit to Mons France...
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Frederick George Scott (category Canadian military chaplains)
and reinterred in Tara Hill Cemetery (later renamed Bapaume Post Military Cemetery.) German advances placed the cemetery behind their lines for a time...
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List of works by Charles Holden (section Cemeteries)
Cemetery details: Bac-Du-Sud British Cemetery. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 15 May 2011. Cemetery details: Bapaume Post Military Cemetery...
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Foster Cunliffe (category British military personnel killed in World War I)
of wounds at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, France. He was buried at Bapaume Post Military Cemetery, Albert, Somme. "Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 2...
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than any other place on earth". The village of Pozières, on the Albert–Bapaume road, lies atop a ridge approximately in the centre of what was the British...
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Reginald Judson (category Burials at Waikumete Cemetery)
1918. Prior to the Second Battle of Bapaume, he had already received the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Military Medal, with all three medals being...
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bank and by the Fourth Army from Maricourt to the vicinity of the Albert–Bapaume road. The 57,470 casualties suffered by the British, including 19,240 killed...
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Military Artist drawing of the Battle of Delville Wood, The Somme. July 1916 The South African Commemorative Museum View of Delville Wood Cemetery Plaque...
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small village of La Boisselle, the site lies south of the D 929 Albert–Bapaume road and occupies a small area in the southeast of the village (see photographs)...
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Oswald Boelcke (category Military personnel from the Province of Saxony)
spiralled down to glide into an impact, near a German artillery battery near Bapaume. Although the crash seemed survivable, Boelcke was not wearing his crash...
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the autumn of 1914. This memorial is located in the Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentières, and commemorates 47 officers and men of the New Zealand...
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John Gildroy Grant (category Burials at Waikumete Cemetery)
Zealand Division was engaged in the Second Battle of Bapaume, which had as its objective the town of Bapaume. On 1 September, near Bancourt, the lead elements...
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Samuel Forsyth (category Burials at Adanac Military Cemetery)
an infantry battalion. On 24 August 1918, during the Second Battle of Bapaume, he played a key role in eliminating a machine gun nest that was holding...
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2024-04-17. "Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery". WW1 Cemeteries.com - A photographic guide to over 4000 military cemeteries and memorials. Retrieved 2024-04-17...
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on Bourlon Ridge and on the British left, the 36th Division reached the Bapaume–Cambrai road. Of the tanks, 180 were out of action after the first day...
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Arthur Whitten Brown (category Military personnel from Glasgow)
only to be shot down again, this time with a punctured fuel tank, near Bapaume in B.E.2c (number 2673) on a reconnaissance flight on 10 November 1915...
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battle was fought on a front from Courcelette in the east near the Albert–Bapaume road, to Thiepval and the Schwaben Redoubt (Schwaben-Feste) in the west...
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of World War I buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. He was awarded the VC posthumously in 1921. This gesture reciprocated...
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Ferdinand Foch (category French military personnel of World War I)
honorary field-marshal by the British. A statue of Foch stands on the Bapaume-Peronne road, near the village of Bouchavesnes, at the point where Messimy's...
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Staffordshire Regiment (category Military units and formations in Staffordshire)
Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Bapaume 1917-18, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Bullecourt, Battle of Hill 70...
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Martinpuich was bombarded all day. Posts were set up nearer to 26th Avenue and the line up to the Albert–Bapaume road was taken over from the Canadians...
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2nd Division (Australia) (category Military units and formations established in 1915)
temporarily hold the R.I. position, which was centred on the village of Bapaume, so on 25 February, the 5th and 6th Brigades mounted an unsuccessful attack...
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Attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt (category Cemeteries in Pas-de-Calais)
Somme. The Butte de Warlencourt is an ancient burial mound off the Albert–Bapaume road, north-east of Le Sars in the Somme département in northern France...
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Harry Laurent (category New Zealand military personnel of World War II)
September 1918, during an engagement that followed the Second Battle of Bapaume, that he performed the actions that led to him being honoured with the...
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services to First World War remembrance. William Orpen: Mines and the Bapaume Road, La Boisselle (Art.IWMART2962) Orpen: The Great Mine, La Boisselle...
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Seaforth Highlanders (category Pages using Template:Post-nominals with missing parameters)
Broodseinde, Poelcapelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune...
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Otago Infantry Regiment (NZEF) (category Military units and formations established in 1914)
The Otago Infantry Regiment (Otago Regiment) was a military unit that served within the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in World War I during the...
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