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...

roundels mark all the engagements in which the British Army fought. Memorial in Anglo-French cemetery behind the Thiepval Memorial. Pozières welcomes...

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...

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...

Foncquevillers website (in French) "Gommecourt 1st July 1916" website Archived 23 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine Gommecourt Wood CWGC cemetery v t e...

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...

battalions in 56th Division preparing for the attack at Gommecourt (see above). The dispersal of 2/2nd London began on 5 May, when 3 officers and 126 other...

Sherwood Press, 1992, ISBN 0-9508205-2-0. Alan MacDonald, Pro Patria Mori: The 56th (1st London) Division at Gommecourt, 1st July 1916, 2nd Edn, West Wickham:...