Hancourt () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography Hancourt is situated on the D15 and D194 crossroads, some northwest of Saint-Quentin.

History 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. (Page 61)

Population

See also Communes of the Somme department

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