Somme Things to Do

It is one heck of an arch when you first look at it, at 150 feet high, the memorial is the biggest British battle memorial in the world.

Carved in this structure are the names of 72, 087 Commonwealth soldiers who lost their lives between 1914 and 1918, in the World War I Battle of the Somme and these men have no known grave.

You will really realize how big of a war World War I was.

There is also a graveyard right in front of the Memorial.

You will gain more knowledge that you could ever imagine, except maybe if you are a history professor, but it is really worth the trip and experience.
It is also the only great place where there are so many souvenirs!!!

The museum basically tells you what happened to the soldiers, their hardships on the battlefields and also what happened to the locals when the war was going on.

There is also an exhibition regarding prisoners of war.

Interesting stuff.

Somme used to be the battle place for some of the bloodiest wars in the Great War and of course, everywhere you'll see graveyards and memorial.

It's a worthwhile experience to pay respect and visit some of our fallen heroes. We got a tour guide, so we had a little bit of extra information, and he mentioned some of the war heroes, and about the history of the battle.

Newfoundland Park is a serene place these days, belying the carnage that took place here during the infamous and bloody Battle of the Somme. Visiting these days, surrounded by peaceful, yellow colza fields and planted with beautiful Newfoundland firs (one pine was dedicated to every fallen soldier of their regiment), the sense of tranquillity that can be found here is almost unrivalled. But do not simply stroll around the grounds; take a guided tour of the site and explore the site of a defining moment of the First World War. The guide will take you through the grassy remains of reserve trenches dug by the Allies, down into a vast open meadow, which was once No Man's Land. Here you can witness the minimal distance between the front lines, and visit the graves of the bodies that were found. A caribou stands tall and proud over the field, watching over the dead, a symbol of Newfoundland, now of course a part of Canada. See the Danger Tree, the only one left standing through the gunfire. By the time the regiment had reached this tree, almost all had been shot down already. When I visited, British archaeologists were busy excavating a potential German bunker found just behind the front line, and the whole experience was captivating on both an intellectual and spiritual level.