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    Albert (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ] ) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is located about halfway between...
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    The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First...
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  • of Albert, a former electoral district in Queensland, Australia Albert, Somme, a French commune Albert (automobile), a 1920s British light car Albert (motorcycle)...
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    Somme (French pronunciation: [sɔm] ; Picard: Sonme) is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. It...
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    The Somme (UK: /sɒm/ SOM, US: /sʌm/ SUM, French: [sɔm] ) is a river in Picardy, northern France. The river is 245 km (152 mi) in length, from its source...
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    The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, was the beginning of the Battle of Albert (1–13 July), the name given by the British to the first two weeks of...
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    obtain a military uniform and a false identity. Upon her arrival in Albert, Somme, she found a soldier who took her to the front lines. However, trench...
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    Albert, a commune of the Somme department in the Picardy (Picardie) region of northern France. The airport is located 4 km (2 mi) southeast of Albert...
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    the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of the River Somme. It...
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  • opening phase of the Battle of the Somme Battle of Albert (1918), the opening phase of the Second Battle of the Somme This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • transmitted the message that the British artillery was in the town of Albert, Somme by killing a man of that name, and that his German chief understood...
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  • An old pack of British Woodbine cigarettes, photographed at the Musée Somme 1916 of Albert (Somme), France...
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  • Jean-Claude Dessein (category People from Albert, Somme)
    served as a member of the National Assembly from 1981 to 1993, representing Somme. "HOMMAGE À JEAN-CLAUDE DESSEIN". Amiens Socialiste. September 26, 2011...
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    the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World...
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  • Christophe Moyon (category People from Albert, Somme)
    Christophe Moyon Personal information Nationality French Born (1963-05-12) 12 May 1963 (age 61) Albert, France Sport Sport Ice hockey...
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  • Xavier Depraz (category People from Albert, Somme)
    1926 – 18 October 1994) was a French opera singer and actor. Born in Albert (Somme), Depraz was a bass at the Paris Opéra until 1971. He took part in the...
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    Y (French pronunciation: [i] ee) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Y bears the shortest place name in France...
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    Olivier Charlier (category People from Albert, Somme)
    plays on a violin by Carlo Bergonzi dated 1747. Charlier was born in Albert, Somme and admitted at the age of 10 to the Conservatoire de Paris where he...
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    Hurtu was a pioneering French car made by Diligeon et Cie based in Albert, Somme from 1896 to 1930. As well as cars, the company also made sewing machines...
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    completed his masterpiece, the Notre-Dame basilisk of Brebières at Albert in the Somme, a majestic monument inspired by both Byzantine and Moorish art,...
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  • his bedside a wooden cross taken from the rubble of Albert Basilica at the time of the Battle of Somme. In the final decade of his life, Marshall was awarded...
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    Eugénie Salanson (category People from Albert, Somme)
    serve as a tariff collector. The family later moved to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, where her twin sisters were born, then on to Saint-Omer, where her father...
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  • effect in March 2015: Abbeville-1 Abbeville-2 Ailly-sur-Noye Ailly-sur-Somme Albert Amiens-1 Amiens-2 Amiens-3 Amiens-4 Amiens-5 Amiens-6 Amiens-7 Corbie...
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    (Abbeville - Amiens - Albert line). List of SNCF stations in Hauts-de-France Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gare d'Ailly-sur-Somme. "Plan des lignes...
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    de la Barre in the following common places: Abbeville (Somme), Albert (Somme), Amiens (Somme), Apt (Vaucluse), Les Arcs (Var), Audierne (Finistère),...
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    The following is a list of the 772 communes of the Somme department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):...
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    Matthew Leggat † 15 Sqn. R.E.8 (B742) JG I Fokker DR.I(477/17) 2 km NE of Albert, Somme 71 27 March 1918 0900 Capt.Thomas Sydney Sharpe DFC (WIA/POW) 73 Sqn...
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    Battle of Albert (1–13 July 1916) is the British name for the first two weeks of British–French offensive operations of the Battle of the Somme. The Allied...
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     65 Squadron, and scored his first aerial victory on 26 June 1918 over Albert, France shooting down the Pfalz D.III of Lt. Wilhelm Lehmann, commander...
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    (French pronunciation: [mame]; Picard: Mamé) is a former commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it...
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