- The Fort de la
Pompelle, also
known as Fort Herbillon, is one of a
number of
forts built around Reims after 1870 as part of a
fortification belt in the...
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Valor memorial, Bataan,
Philippines One GPF gun on
carriage at Fort de la
Pompelle near Reims,
France One GPF gun on
carriage at
Battery Moltke, Jersey, Channel...
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important works which cover the
approaches from the
upper Aisne. Fort de la
Pompelle,
which hosts a
World War I
museum featuring a rich
collection of German...
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units were
fighting the
Battle of Verdun.
Russians occupied the Fort de la
Pompelle near Reims.
Following heavy losses during the
offensive of
April 1917 (Second...
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became the last
German siege battery to fire on a fort, the Fort de la
Pompelle. In
November 1918, KMK
Battery 5
surrendered its guns, the
remaining two...
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Hotchkiss Modèle 1914
machine gun with
inserted feed
strip at Fort de la
Pompelle Type
Heavy machine gun Place of origin
France Service history In service...
- S****ped by Germans, 1 June 1918. 527
Lotti Struck by
artillery at Fort de la
Pompelle,
Reims and
abandoned by crew on 1 June 1918. 528
Hagen Ditched and abandoned...
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Fresne Witry-lès-Reims
Vigie de
Berru Berru (batteries) Nogent-l'Abbesse La
Pompelle Montbré Saint-Thierry
Fortifications of
Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries...
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Fresne Witry-lès-Reims
Vigie de
Berru Berru (batteries) Nogent-l'Abbesse La
Pompelle Montbré Saint-Thierry
Fortifications of
Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries...
- They were
particularly renowned for
their tenacious defence of Fort de la
Pompelle. 10,000
people attended the fete
which was held
immediately following the...
