Bapaume
Pas-de-Calais, France
Mentioned: 1916, 1917
Vimy / Artois Sector A town on the road between Albert and Cambrai, in German hands since 1914. Mentioned on March 18, 1917 as villages are retaken around it during the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line: see that date's context panel.
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1917
- 18 March 1917… been doing up the line + whether the Divn went over. Things are certainly stirring. 13 villages taken around BAPAUME + troops have gone beyond. – French have made a successful attack in the vicinity of ROYE …