Hancourt | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Péronne |
Canton: | Péronne |
Insee: | 80413 |
Postal Code: | 80240 |
Mayor: | Philippe Waree[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Haute Somme |
Coordinates: | 49.9039°N 3.0733°W |
Elevation M: | 102 |
Elevation Min M: | 82 |
Elevation Max M: | 110 |
Area Km2: | 4.06 |
Hancourt (in French pronounced as /ɑ̃kuʁ/) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Hancourt is situated on the D15 and D194 crossroads, some 10miles northwest of Saint-Quentin.
Hancourt was the French village to which the 22 survivors of the 2/4th Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry retreated in spring 1918, after the Battalion was virtually wiped out in action on the Western Front.[2]