Bomy Travel Guide

 mtncorg Says:  Five of these graceful mourning caribou can be found on former battlefields in France and Belgium where men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment fought and died in WWI. The main Newfoundland memorial is found at Beaumont-Hamel in the northern area of the Somme battlefields.... 

 mtncorg Says:  A few miles northeast of St Quentin, the Somme River begins its life as it bubbles out of a hillside next to the little town of Fonsommes. Leave it to the French to make a big thing out of something so humble. That said the park here is quite nice where you can sit and... 

 mtncorg Says:  La Escaut does not have the name recognition of la Somme, but it does become an important river in northern France and western Belgium. As at the source of la Somme, there is a little park where the waters percolate out from under laid stone – for the most part, anyway – and... 

 mtncorg Says:  Buried here are 1,844 American soldiers most fo whom died in the fighting that raged in th surrounding area at the end of September 1918 though a few had fallen earlier in actions around Cantingy in May – one of the first actions involving American soldiers in the war in... 

 mtncorg Says:  While the vast majority of Americans fought in France as part of the First or, later, the Second American Army, there were some 90,000 who fought with British or Commonwealth forces. This monument remembers their actions here in Picardy where they played a role in helping to... 

 mtncorg Says:  Set next to the busy N44 road, right by the Touage boat exhibit – one of the electric towboats that pull canal boats through the Riqueval Tunnel beneath – is the small memorial to the US 30th Infantry Division. The soldiers that made up that division came mainly from... 

 mtncorg Says:  A Territorial division from the Midlands, the 46th had been in France since February 1915 taking part in several battles. On 29 September 1918, two brigades of this division sliced through in this area south of Riqueval Bridge known as Bellenglise Mill gathering up some... 

 mtncorg Says:  On 18 September 1918, the 4th Australian Division took this high ground in preparation for the 29 September assault which would punch through sections of the Hindenburg Line further to the east. The road out to the memorial is a gravel/dirt farm road and can/was be a bit...