title: Hancourt
text: # Hancourt
  
  Hancourt (French pronunciation: ​) 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 10 miles (16 km) 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.
  
  