Gommecourt (French pronunciation: [ɡɔmkuʁ]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. A small farming village...

The Attack on the Gommecourt Salient was a British operation against the northern flank of the German 2nd Army. The attack took place on 1 July 1916, on...

Foncquevillers and Gommecourt. The cemetery was initially started by French soldiers in early 1915 on the western outskirts of Foncquevillers. The British took responsibility...

but from the Albert–Bapaume road to Gommecourt the British attack was a disaster where most of the c. 60,000 British casualties were incurred. Against Joffre's...

This article lists the memorials and cemeteries around the area of the river Somme. Mametz Wood was to be the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of...

yards beyond occupying the village of Gommecourt. In mid-summer 1916, the 56th (London) Division of the British Army carried out an attack from Hébuterne...

Somme Offensive (the 'Big Push') was to attack the south side of the Gommecourt Salient as a diversion to support the main attack further south. The divisional...

on the 2nd Army which held the front from Noyon northwards to beyond Gommecourt, although Falkenhayn was more concerned about an offensive in Alsace-Lorraine...

held in reserve. The Guard Corps with three divisions took over from Gommecourt to Serre, which reduced the frontage of the XIV Reserve Corps from 30...

battery began registering targets in preparation for the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the First day on the Somme. No 1 Sub-Section fired the battery's...