Vermandovillers

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Coordinates: 49°51′03″N 2°46′58″E / 49.8508333333, 2.78277777778

Commune of Vermandovillers

Location

Administration

Communauté de communes de Haute Picardie

Mayor

M. Raphaël Poupard
(2001-2008)

Statistics

Elevation

78 m–97 m
(avg. 82 m)

Land area^¹

5,83 km²

Population^²
(1999)

119

- Density

20/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

80789/ 80320

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Vermandovillers is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

1 Geography
2 History
- 2.1 World War I – Battles at Vermandovillers
3 Population
4 See also
5 External links
6 Notes

[edit] Geography

Situated some 26 miles east of Amiens, on the D143 and D79 roads.

[edit] History

[edit] World War I – Battles at Vermandovillers

The first attack occurred on September 24, 1914, it was partially blocked by the 75th Infantry Regiment at Etoilé woods near to Herleville.
The front was stabilized for two years until September 1916. The spearhead attack of September 4, 1916 at edge of Vermandovillers’ Etoilé woods, was assigned to the 132nd Division(10th Army), against heavily concreted machine guns bunkers, organized by the Germans for nearly 2 years (Report No.: 6288/3 of September 26th 1916 of the 132nd Division). On 6 September 1916, many (the 13th, the 43rd , the 51st and 120th) Infantry Regiments were involved in the so-called battle of Vermandovillers. It ended on September 9, 1916 for lack of troops. The 158th, the 366th Infantry Regiment and the 1st Battalion Chasseurs showed exemplary conduct and suffered heavy losses.
For the record, between September 4th-9th, 1916, the 86th Brigade lost 1,071 men, 264th Brigade lost 1,513 and 108th Brigade 1,580. These figures explain the fact that in a 5km radius around Vermandovillers, there are, buried in cemeteries 1,261 French and 22,665 Germans. The British are not counted because although killed in the fighting, they are buried mostly in Villers-Bretonneux.