• English-language names given by WWI troops to places affected by WWI
    Montauban-de-Picardie Moo-cow: Mouquet Farm, near Pozières Mucky Farm: Mouquet Farm, near Pozières Ocean Villas: Auchonvillers, Somme Plugstreet: Ploegsteert,...
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  • Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
    military cemetery: No Man’s Cot Cemetery Commonwealth military cemetery: Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery Commonwealth military cemetery: Polygon Wood Cemetery...
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  • List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Pas-de-Calais
    pincer attack at the Battle of Aubers Ridge are commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing. On the same road as the Indian Memorial is the...
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    Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (Ploegsteert) Wood, the objectives to be reached in three to six months. Fowke had wanted galleries about 960 m (1,050 yd) long, as far as Grand Bois and...
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    Battle of Messines (1917) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    objective was to capture the German defences on the ridge, which ran from Ploegsteert Wood (Plugstreet to the British) in the south, through Messines and Wytschaete...
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    List of First World War Victoria Cross recipients
    Thomas Mottershead No. 020No. 20 Squadron RFC 1917-01-077 January 1917* Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium Albert Mountain Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)...
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    2nd Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers
    training in Trench warfare the 5th Gloucesters went into the line near Ploegsteert ('Plugstreet') on 7 April, attached to the experienced 11th Brigade....
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  • List of English Victoria Cross recipients
    War Le Transloy Thomas Mottershead British Army 1917 First World War Ploegsteert Wood James Mouat British Army 1854 Crimean War Balaclava Albert Mountain...
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  • List of former municipalities in Wallonia
    Comblain-au-Pont Poulseur Comines-Warneton Comines Bas-Warneton Houthem Ploegsteert Warneton Courcelles Courcelles Gouy-lez-Piéton Souvret Trazegnies Court-Saint-Étienne...
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    Battle of Armentières
    the other three dug a reserve line from Bois Blancs to Le Quesne, La Houssoie and Rue du Bois, half way to Bois Grenier. A German attack by the 51st Infantry...
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