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    Loos-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. A former coal mining town, three miles northwest...
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    Third Army. After formation the company moved into Hill 70 sector near Loos-en-Gohelle, where it joined 173rd Tunnelling Company. Until April 1917, both units...
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    flatter and eroded, especially if vegetation has established itself. In Loos-en-Gohelle, in the former mining area of Pas-de-Calais, France, are a series of...
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  • Look up loos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Loos may refer to: Loos, Nord, France Loos-en-Gohelle, France Loos, British Columbia, Canada Loos (surname)...
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    The Loos Memorial is a World War I memorial forming the sides and rear of Dud Corner Cemetery, located near the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, in the Pas-de-Calais...
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    Givenchy-en-Gohelle (French pronunciation: [ʒivɑ̃ʃi ɑ̃ ɡɔɛl]; Picard: Givinchy-in-Gohelle) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France...
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    (Loos-en-Gohelle) and 7 (Mazingarbe) were totally destroyed. All the other mines were damaged by the artillery fire. The rotunda at Loos-en-Gohelle, a...
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    break through the weaker German defences and capture the village of Loos-en-Gohelle, mainly due to numerical superiority. Supply and communications problems...
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    Western Front during the First World War, at Auchy-les-Mines near Loos-en-Gohelle in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. Named after the House of...
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    being decisively rejected for poor eyesight. His death at the Battle of Loos caused his family immense grief. Born in 1897, Kipling was the youngest of...
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