Louvencourt

Louvencourt
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Péronne
Canton	Albert
Community association	Pays du Coquelicot
Coordinates	50 ° 6 ′  N , 2 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′  N , 2 ° 30 ′  E
height	95-152 m
surface	7.74 km 2
Residents	281 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	36 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	80560
INSEE code	80493

Louvencourt is a French municipality with 281 inhabitants (1 January 2017) in the department of Somme in the region of Hauts-de-France .

geography

The municipality of Louvencourt is in northern France, about halfway between the cities of Amiens and Arras .

history

Military hospital and military cemetery

Between July 1915 and August 1916 there was a British field hospital in Louvencourt. The place was about ten kilometers from the front line on July 1, 1916. With the onset of the Somme Offensive, the importance of the hospital waned and it was finally moved further east. The cemetery established by the military hospital was then only rarely used until a German advance shifted the front line back to the 1916 positions in April 1918. The cemetery was one of the first that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission laid out after the First World War . The cemetery now houses 151 graves of members of the British Commonwealth from the First World War and 76 graves of French soldiers who died in the First World War. Three graves from the time of the Second World War are also in the cemetery.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007
Residents	274	304	306	283	259	264	263

Personalities

Roland Leighton (1895–1915), who became known as Vera Brittain's fiancé , died in a field hospital in Louvencourt during World War I and is buried in a British military cemetery southeast of the city on the D938.

Web links

Commons : Louvencourt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cemetery Details Louvencourt Military Cemetery Website of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission The cemetery also contains eight graves that were originally laid out in a special section in the Vauchelles-lès-Authie municipal cemetery 1.6 kilometers from Louvencourt.
2. ^ Leighton, Roland Aubray Casualty Details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.