Monchy-le-Preux is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France 6 miles southeast of Arras. During …Monchy-le-Preux is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France 6 miles southeast of Arras. During World War I ten Commonwealth soldiers, from Newfoundland territory while still independent from Canada fought off a German counterattack in April 1917 and kept the village from German occupation.