Bourlon

The picture to the right is the Vimy marker at the Bourlon Woods monument.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

He was wounded at Bourlon Wood in 1918 and for exceptional courage in various battles was awarded the Military Medal and two bars to that medal.

The Church Amid World Cultures 1963

They swept through the Wood, taking the villages of Bourlon and Fontaine, but a gigantic counter attack pressed them back again owing to reinforcements being late in arriving to render assistance.

Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose

The voting of the contributions from ecclesiastical property, as is well known, was the principal object of the celebrated Assemblies of the French clergy (Bourlon, "Les assemblées du clergé", Paris, 1907).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Mondes (1878); Bourlon in Revue du Clerg ‚ (1905-06); Sicard, L'ancien clerg ‚ de France (Paris, 1893-1903).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

On reaching our cantonment at Bourlon, a little beyond Cambray, I had just put up my Company when General Lambert sent for me.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

Moeuvres the Canadians, under General Home, crossing the Canal in the early morning of September 27th, on a narrow front, and spreading out behind the German troops holding the Canal, by a fan-shaped manoeuvre, brilliantly executed, which won reluctant praise from captured German officers, pushed on for Bourlon and Cambrai.

Fields of Victory Humphry Ward 1885