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Hébuterne is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.GeographyA farming village situated 24km southwest of Arras, at the junction of the D27 and the D28 roads.HistoryFormerly within the ancient county of Artois, the village was redesignated within the new Department of the Pas de Calais after the French Revolution.First World WarFor most of the First World War, Hébuterne was in the front line of the Western Front and occupied by the Allied Forces entrenched on the eastern side of the village facing the Imperial German Army 800 yards beyond occupying the village of Gommecourt. In mid-summer 1916, the 56th (London) Division of the British Army carried out an attack from Hébuterne in an attempt to capture Gommecourt as a part of the Battle of the Somme offensive, which failed with severe losses.By the war's end, the village was a complete wreck due to the violence to which it had been subject during its front line career, and it had to be completely re-built in the 1920s.

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