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...

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...

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...

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

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...

The men buried in these small battlefield cemeteries were later re-interred in Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery. After rest and training, 46th Division returned...

the Western Front from 1916 to 1918, beginning with the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the First day on the Somme. It then served at Vimy Ridge and...