Explosion

Bapaume town hall explosion

25 mars 1917 · 50.10° N, 2.85° E

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25 mars 1917
Type
Explosion
Coordonnées
50.10° N, 2.85° E
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Attack in World War I

Bapaume town hall explosion

1917 bombing during World War I

On 25 March 1917 an explosion at the town hall in Bapaume, Pas-de-Calais, France, killed 24 people including Australian soldiers, civilians of the Australian Comforts Fund and two members of the French parliament. An explosive device had been left behind on a time-delayed fuse by German troops, hoping to kill members of an Allied headquarters unit.

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