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Top 10 Historic Sites in Somme, Hauts-de-France
Discover the best top things to do in Somme, France including Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, Heilly Station Cemetery, La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie, Ovillers Military Cemetery, Newfoundland Memorial, Lochnagar Crater, Eglise Notre-Dame de La Neuville de Corbie, Dury Canadian Battlefield Memorial, Beffroi de Saint-Riquier, Fricourt New Military Cemetery.
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1. Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial
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5.0 based on 520 reviews
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial stands as an important symbol of remembrance and a lasting tribute to all Newfoundlanders who served during the First World War. At the heart of the memorial stands a great bronze caribou (the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment). Its defiant gaze forever fixed towards its former foe, the caribou stands watch over rolling fields that still lay claim to many men with no known final resting place.
Reviewed By 750dimitrisl - Sydney, Australia
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is a large area commemorating the fallen soldiers of a Canadian force and Canadian soldiers in general, who died during World War I. There several cemeteries and memorials in this area. This particular memorial features the caribou, made in bronze, which was the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
2. Heilly Station Cemetery
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
There are now 2,890 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Only 12 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 21 casualties whose graves in the cemetery could not be exactly located. The cemetery also contains 83 German graves.
3. La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
Neuville British Cemetery contains 866 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There are also 27 German war graves.
4. Ovillers Military Cemetery
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5.0 based on 11 reviews
There are now 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 24 casualties believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 35 casualties, buried in Mash Valley Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed in later fighting.
5. Newfoundland Memorial
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5.0 based on 13 reviews
Reviewed By TopTraveller18 - Four Marks, United Kingdom
The head of the memorial looks out across the battlefield in the direction of where the soldiers fought and died for their country. It is a very touching Memorial and helps you realise the horrors of the battle of the Somme in the area and how courageously those who were there fought.
6. Lochnagar Crater
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4.5 based on 481 reviews
A well preserved mine crater from the first world war. A boardwalk allows you to walk around, information panels tell the story. Follow signs 'La grand mine' from La Boisselle. On road parking just before crater. Sat-navs may direct you down tracks, take care.
Reviewed By H575DRrichardp - Holland, United States
We visited this site with Jon from Old Blighty Tours. It is sobering and terrifying to see. I recommend visiting with a guide who can explain in detail what you are seeing, and how it fit into the World War I Somme battlefields. I hope more visitors visit and remember the terror that was WWI, and how it was a prelude to WWII.
7. Eglise Notre-Dame de La Neuville de Corbie
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4.5 based on 4 reviews
8. Dury Canadian Battlefield Memorial
9. Beffroi de Saint-Riquier
10. Fricourt New Military Cemetery
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4.5 based on 4 reviews
The cemetery contains 210 First World War burials, 26 of them unidentified. 159 of the graves belong to the 10th West Yorkshire Regiment.
