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Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial
jusdenise93 Says: This is truly an amazing place to visit, you will see that the trenches that were used in the war are still intact.You will get a true feel of what the Battle of the Some was like, except for the violence. "A 74 acre memorial site, the park encompasses the grounds over which...
Visit the Memorial de Thiepval
jusdenise93 Says: 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...
Visit the Museum of the Great War
jusdenise93 Says: 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...
jusdenise93 Says: 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...
Beaumont-Hamel, Newfoundland Park
jamiema Says: 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...
Hit Me Harder Than I thought It Would
Meadows11 Says: I would describe myself as a thick skinned kind of guy. However, when you pass the umpteenth cemetary with row upon row of white gravestones, it is bound to hit you. We visited numerous sites, but if we'd visited everyone we had seen we could have been there for months. It's...
Sea France from Dover to Calais
jusdenise93 Says: We went as a field trip in our history class so it was better to take a bus/coach(where we all were) then take that bus and take it to Sea France. It was a short trip from Dover to Calais so it wasn't bad at all. But if you get sea sick, this might not be the best trip for...
jusdenise93 Says: Seeing the trenches the very first is nothing like the textbooks or even the pictures online. You just have to see how very big they are! The experience and the rich history and knowledge will always stay with you (except the boring war details the guide was talking about)....
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I would describe myself as a thick skinned kind of guy. However, when you pass the umpteenth cemetary with row upon row of white gravestones, it is bound to hit...
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Who could've have predicted that such Great War, as it was called would be fought at one of the places was here at the Somme, France (one of the bloodiest WW1 battlefields). The most famous word, "no...
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I visited The Sommes as part of a college trip around France and Belgium in April 2001. It was for both History and English Literature, as we were learning about WW1 for both, war literature for the...
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France, Departemente 80: Somme, Picardy.
Drove through the Somme one June evening in 1994 from Dieppe, heading for Calais and on to Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.
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