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SOUTERRAIN DE RIQUEVAL

SOUTERRAIN DE RIQUEVAL, Bomy

 mtncorg Says:  Running parallel to the St Quentin-Cambrai highway, the Canal de St Quentin disappears into a 3.5 Km tunnel that dates to the time of Napoleon I. During the latter stages of WWI, the tunnel - which had been dried up and used as an underground haven for hospitals, barracks,... 

NEWFOUNDLAND CARIBOU

NEWFOUNDLAND CARIBOU, Bomy

 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.... 

SOURCE OF THE SOMME

SOURCE OF THE SOMME, Bomy

 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... 

SOURCE OF LA ESCAUT

SOURCE OF LA ESCAUT, Bomy

 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... 

AMERICAN SOMME CEMETERY

AMERICAN SOMME CEMETERY, Bomy

 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... 

BELLICOURT AMERICAN MEMORIAL

BELLICOURT AMERICAN MEMORIAL, Bomy

 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... 

US 30TH DIVISION MONUMENT

US 30TH DIVISION MONUMENT, Bomy

 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... 

46th BRITISH – NORTH MIDLANDS – DIVISON MONUMENT

46th BRITISH – NORTH MIDLANDS – DIVISON MONUMENT, Bomy

 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... 

4TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION MEMORIAL

4TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION MEMORIAL, Bomy

 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... 

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BOMY – AMERICANS IN THE SERVICE OF THE KING

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 As American troops began to come ashore in France in late 1917 and 1918, pressure built up on American commander, General John Pershing, to use Americans as replacements for existing French and... 

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