The Butte de Warlencourt is an ancient burial mound near the Albert–Bapaume road, north-east of Le Sars in the Somme département of northern France
v
t
e
Somme Offensive
Battles of the Somme, 1916
Albert
First day
Montauban
Mametz
Fricourt
Contalmaison
La Boisselle
Gommecourt
Bazentin Ridge
Longueval
Trônes Wood
Ovillers
Fromelles
High Wood
Delville Wood
Pozières
Mouquet Farm
Guillemont
Ginchy
Flers–Courcelette
Martinpuich
Morval
Combles
Lesbœufs
Gueudecourt
Thiepval Ridge
Le Transloy
Eaucourt
Le Sars
Butte de Warlencourt
Ancre Heights
Schwaben Redoubt
Stuff Redoubt
Regina Trench
Ancre
Beaumont-Hamel
Associated articles
Hébuterne (1915)
Order of Battle
Boar's Head
Mines, 1 July
Lochnagar
Y Sap
Hawthorn Ridge
Leipzig Salient
Thiepval Memorial
Ancre, 1917
v
t
e
Western Front
1914
Moresnet
Invasion of Belgium
Liège
Dinant
Namur
Frontiers
Lorraine
Ardennes
Charleroi
Mons
Trouée de Charmes
Great Retreat
Le Cateau
Étreux
1st St. Quentin
Maubeuge
Grand Couronné
1st Marne
1st Aisne
Antwerp
Race to the Sea
Yser
1st Ypres
Winter actions
1st Artois
1915
1st Champagne
Hartmannswillerkopf
Neuve Chapelle
2nd Ypres
2nd Artois
Hébuterne
2nd Champagne
Loos
3rd Artois
Gas: Wieltje
1916
The Bluff
Hohenzollern Redoubt
St Eloi
Hulluch
Wulverghem
Kink Salient
Vimy Ridge 1916
Mont Sorrel
Verdun
Boar's Head
1st Somme
Fromelles
1917
Ancre
Alberich
Nivelle offensive
Arras
Vimy
2nd Aisne
The Hills
Messines
Passchendaele
La Malmaison
Cambrai
1918
German spring offensive
Michael
The Lys
3rd Aisne
Belleau Wood
2nd Marne
Soissons
Amiens
Ailette
2nd Somme
Saint-Mihiel
St Quentin Canal
Meuse-Argonne
5th Ypres
2nd Cambrai
Courtrai
Sambre
Lys and Escaut
Associated articles
1914 Christmas truce
French Army mutinies
Western Front tactics, 1917
The Attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt (7 October – 16 November 1916) describe a tactical incident during the Battle of the Somme. The Butte de Warlencourt is an ancient burial mound off the Albert–Bapaume road, north-east of Le Sars in the Somme département in northern France. It is located on the territory of the commune of Warlencourt-Eaucourt and slightly north of a minor road to Gueudecourt and Eaucourt l'Abbaye. During the First World War, German troops constructed deep dugouts in the Butte and surrounded it by several belts of barbed wire, making it a formidable defensive position in advance of Gallwitz Riegel (Gird Trenches to the British). After the Battle of Flers–Courcelette (15–22 September 1916), the view from the Butte dominated the new British front line and was used by the Germans for artillery observation.
During the Battle of Le Transloy (1–20 October 1916), the Butte de Warlencourt was the subject of several attacks by the British Fourth Army, which were costly failures; attacks in November were also defeated. The 2nd Australian Division occupied the Butte on 24 February 1917, during the German retirements made on the Somme front, preparatory to Operation Alberich (Unternehmen Alberich), the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line. The Butte de Warlencourt was recaptured by the German 2nd Army on 24 March 1918, during the retreat of the 2nd Division in Operation Michael, the German spring offensive. The Butte was recaptured for the last time on 26 August, by the 21st Division, during the Second Battle of Bapaume. In 1990, the site was purchased for preservation by the Western Front Association with the help of donations from members. The Association announced in October 2018 its sale to its former chairman, Bob Paterson. Following concerns raised, Paterson offered to sell the site back to the Western Front Association.
and 16 Related for: Attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt information
TheAttacksontheButtedeWarlencourt (7 October – 16 November 1916) describe a tactical incident during the Battle of the Somme. TheButtede Warlencourt...
Attacks on theButtedeWarlencourton 7–8 October. It then left the Somme sector for rest and reorganisation. 47th (2nd L) Division moved into the Hill 60...
Gueudecourt Capture of Eaucourt l'Abbaye Capture of Le Sars AttacksontheButtedeWarlencourt Capture of Schwaben Redoubt Capture of Stuff Redoubt Capture...
in 1971, including the Lochnagar mine crater, Delville Wood and theButtedeWarlencourt. A third revision was published in 2003 by Pen & Sword with a preface...
the Butte deWarlencourt in October 1916 incurred a further 1,150 casualties, and a further 700 at Arras in April 1917. After these attacks, which resulted...
Le Transloy and Warlencourt and towards theButtedeWarlencourt, from which German observers could see all round. Deliberate attackson 7, 12, 18 and 23...
finished on 3 November and the battalion rested for one day before the 50th Division made a new attackontheButtedeWarlencourton 5 November (celebrated...
for an attack on theButtedeWarlencourt, which was several times delayed. 151st (Durham Light Infantry) Brigade finally attackedon 5 November, supported...
Sars from the Germans, while at the same time launched attacksontheButtedeWarlencourt burial mound northeast of the commune. Battle of the Ancre Heights...
setpiece attack at the Battle of the Transloy Ridges on 1 October. The division's infantry returned to the line on 24 October for an attackontheButtede Warlencourt...
been dug by the Germans against an attack from the south-west. The Gird trenches ran north-west to south-east, behind theButtedeWarlencourt. Seven Dials...
exemplified by the crosses erected and re-erected onthe comparatively insignificant ButtedeWarlencourt, a pre-Christian tumulus onthe Somme, only some...
November (the battles of Le Transloy and ButtedeWarlencourt). The division's last action onthe Somme before being relieved was an attackon Gird Trench...
rest the depleted 1/6th returned to the front line on 4 October, opposite a mound known as theButtedeWarlencourt. Next day the battalion seized the old...