The village and a little wood in the front of it were held by Germans with machine-guns, and another village to the right named Sorel was defended in the same way, and commanded the field of fire before Equancourt.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Before their charge of two parties, a third party was posted on the left on rising ground, and swept the wood below Equancourt with machine-gun fire, and a smaller body of cavalry to the right occupied the attention of the enemy in Sorel in the same way.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Agnes Sorel, buried at Jumieges, her statue destroyed by the Huguenots, her tomb destroyed at the revolution, inscription upon.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner