#Fampoux

[liebgottsjumpwings]

AN ODE TO ISAAC ROSENBERG — English Jewish poet and artist, killed in Fampoux, France on April 1st, 1918.

[theworldofwars]

Battle of the Scarpe. A tank attached to the 51st Division embedded in the Scarpe marshes. Near Fampoux, 29 August 1918. Credit

[thisdayinwwi]

Aug 29 1918 Near Fampoux, France, war photographer John Warwick Brooke takes this photo, IWM Q 7037, of a Male Mark 1 Tank (s/n 716) embedded in the Scarpe marshes. While commanded by Lt V Smith, attached to XVII Corps, "C" Battalion, 7 Company, C7, the Tank was penetrated by AP MG ammo, ditched, and then destroyed by a direct hit from a shell on Apr 23 1917.

Colourized by @colourisationsbyhugh

Colourized by RJM

[poor-bloody-infantry]

© IWM (Q 5465) Soldiers using an old German concrete gun emplacement as a dug-out at Fampoux, 5 June 1917. Maybe they are looking for the Pizza delivery guy...

[philoursmars]

Je reprends mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 52377 photos.

1999. Balade dans le Nord

- Fampoux

- entre Fampoux et Feuchy

- id , un arum

- Roeux

- Roeux, heureux areu areu

- Lécluse

[gacougnol]

Eugène Cuvelier Marsh at Fampoux c. 1860's

[newvegasdyke]

Looked up the Fampoux train accident and wow the comparison to Javert’s internal journey .... a lot of people died because at the time it was customary for the passengers to be locked into the cars. Think about that

[ww1revisited]

Silent Cities on WW1 Revisited - Sunken Road Cemetery, Fampoux #Arras #WW1 Fampoux is a village and commune in the department of the Pas-de-Calais on the north bank of the Scarpe, 7 kilometres east of Arras and 1.6 kilometres west of Roeux.

[hexaconto]

Choisir son expert-comptable à Fampoux - 6 critères incontournables

Choisir son expert-comptable à Fampoux – 6 critères incontournables

La région de Fampoux compte moins de 10 experts-comptables. En tant qu’entrepreneur, dirigeant ou créateur, cela vous fait donc autant de possibilités pour choisir l’expert-comptable adéquat qui vous

[sg2k15]

26 juillet 2020 / Fampoux

[greatwar-1914]

April 9, 1917 - Battles of Arras and Vimy Ridge Begin

Pictured - Canadian machine-gunners dig into shell-holes at Vimy Ridge.

On April 9, Easter Monday, British forces begin a month-long attack on the Hindenburg line, designed to coordinate with a French offensive launched by Robert Nivelle. For five days the Royal Flying Corps had patrolled the skies, taking hideous losses to reconnaissance German trenches and clear German scouts out of the air. Seventy-five British pilots had died in less than a week.

A five day bombardment lifted in the morning, and then a number of underground mines exploded, signalling British and Canadian troops to head over the top. Their initial assaults went well: on the right flank, the Third Army pierced the Hindenburg Line 3 miles inwards at Neuville Vitasse, capturing a German gun park and over 5,600 German prisoners. On the left flank, the German defences at Fampoux fell, and British troops achieved an advance of 3.5 miles, the greatest advance in one day on the Western Front since November 1914.

The Canadians also fought spectacularly, beginning a battle that remains etched in Canadian history as symbolic of transition from a mere dominion to a truly independent nation (although a large portion of Canadian soldiers were British-born). The CEF’s 1st and 2nd divisions went 4,000 yards beyond their main objective, securing the towns of Thélus and Farbus. The 3rd Division was halted by concentrated German gunfire, but the 4th Division captured Hill 145, the highest point on the dominating Vimy Ridge.

Vimy had been fought over many times before, but so far in the war no Allied force, neither French nor British, had been able to conquer it. Canada’s conquest is one of the greatest single-day achievements in the history of the war, but at a dear price: over 11,000 Canadians would be dead before the end of the week as they attempted to build on their first-day success.

By nightfall even the third German trenchline was in British hands. Part of the reason for success came from the employment of a “creeping barrage,” a sophisticated artillery tactic where the shellfire “crept” in front of the infantry, who advanced behind, taking advantage as the guns stunned the defenders and destroyed their defenses. The man in charge of the artillery was Brigade Major Alan Brooke, who in World War II would be the Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

The German third line, however, was massively fortified and held off the repeated assaults from the attackers. British and Canadian Tommies threw themselves against the German line again and again, but to no avail. The tanks that had been meant to protect the infantrymen had broken down or gotten stuck in the mud. Horse-drawn guns pulled up to blast the Germans from close range also could not traverse the sludgy terrain. By nightfall the attackers gave up until the next day, trying to sleep through an unexpected snowfall.

Among the dead that day was English poet R.E. Vernede. A 41-year old Londoner, he had refused a desk job after being wounded at the Somme in 1916 and returned to the front. In his poem “A Listening Post,” he had expressed his confidence in the rightness of the Allied cause:

“And yonder rifleman and I

         Wait here behind the misty trees.

To shoot the first man that goes by

        Our rifles ready on our knees

How could he know that if we fail

       The world may lie in chains for years

And England be a bygone tale

        And right be wrong, and laughter tears?”

[thisdayinwwi]

Apr 9 1917 During the First Battle of the Scarpe, war photographer John Warwick Brooke takes this photo, IWM Q 6434, of British infantry congregating around a ditched tank on the Fampoux road shortly after the area was captured by elements of the 4th Division.

April 9 1917-04-09

Colourized by Hugh

[traficalert-hautsdefrance]

[EN DIRECT] 11:23 #A1 Piéton sur chaussée signalé • fin alerte / #PasdeCalais (#Fampoux). #infotrafic la sélection ➤ +infos http://dlvr.it/QzCd8s http://dlvr.it/QzCd8s

[philoursmars]

Une très très longue série sur les chevaux. Ici, des chevaux en pleine nature.

- près de Bidarraï (Pays Basque)

- Saint-Gilles (Gard), aux limites de la Camargue

- Camargue

- La Rhune (Pays Basque) : un pottok

- Fampoux (Nord)

- Guémappe (Nord)

- Fontanges (Auvergne)

[gacougnol]

Eugène Cuvelier Fampoux c. 1860

[umobiliteshdf]

[BREAKING-NEWS] Le projet REGL partant de Lille mais prolongé vers Fampoux ? Peronne-Bapaume ? Chaulnes-TGV Haute-Picardie ? @xavierbertrand reste plus qu'évasif ^^ on peut avoir des d��tails @fdhersin ? merci ;) (de 15'40'' à 17'05'' dans la vidéo)

[BREAKING-NEWS] Le projet REGL partant de Lille mais prolongé vers Fampoux ? Peronne-Bapaume ? Chaulnes-TGV Haute-Picardie ? @xavierbertrand reste plus qu'évasif ^^ on peut avoir des détails @fdhersin ? merci ;) (de 15'40'' à 17'05'' dans la vidéo)