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{{Infobox French commune
|name               = Hancourt
|commune status     = [[Communes of France|Commune]]
|image              = Hancourt21.jpg
|caption            = The town hall in Hancourt
|arrondissement     = Péronne
|canton             = Péronne
|INSEE              = 80413
|postal code        = 80240
|mayor              = Philippe Waree<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=2 December 2020|language=fr}}</ref>
|term               = 2020&ndash;2026
|intercommunality   = [[Communauté de communes de la Haute Somme|Haute Somme]]
|coordinates        = {{coord|49.9039|3.0733|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m        = 102
|elevation min m    = 82
|elevation max m    = 110
|area km2           = 4.06
|population         = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date    = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes   = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
'''Hancourt''' ({{IPA|fr|ɑ̃kuʁ}}) is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Somme (department)|Somme]] [[Departments of France|department]] in [[Hauts-de-France]] in northern [[France]].
==Geography==
Hancourt is situated on the D15 and D194 crossroads, some {{Convert|10|mi|km|0}} northwest of [[Saint-Quentin, Aisne|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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bullock |first=Arthur |title=Gloucestershire Between the Wars: A Memoir |publisher=The History Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7524-4793-3}} (Page 61)</ref>
==Population==
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-80413#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref>
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |132
|1975 |117
|1982 |92
|1990 |117
|1999 |100
|2007 |103
|2012 |102
|2017 |92
}}
==See also==
*[[Communes of the Somme department]]
==References==
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{{Somme communes}}
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[[Category:World War I sites in France]]
[[Category:Communes of Somme (department)]]
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