This article lists the memorials and cemeteries around the area of the river Somme.

Memorial to the Liverpool and Manchester Pals at Montauban

7th Yorkshire Regiment Memorial at Fricourt

Statue of Marshal Foch at Bouchavesnes

Memorial to 18th Division at Thiepval

Memorial to the 46th Division at Bellenglise

Memorial at Flers

The New Zealand Memorial at Longueval

New Zealand Memorial to the Missing at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery

Memorial to the 38th (Welsh) Division at Mametz Wood

Mametz Wood was to be the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the opening days of the Battle of the Somme as taking the wood involved advancing uphill and over open ground whilst facing heavy machine gun fire and artillery. By 12 July the woods had been cleared of Germans but at a heavy cost with over 4,000 Welsh deaths and casualties. The Mametz memorial takes the form of a Welsh dragon challenging the wood to its fore. At one side of the base is carved the regimental cap badge of the South Wales Borderers. The sculptural work was by David Petersen.

The 38th (Welsh) Division was very much the result of personal initiatives by Lloyd George and was the Welsh equivalent of the "Pals" battalions from the North of England. So awful was the fighting here that a Welsh soldier, Wyn Griffith, described it as "the horror of our way of life and death and of our crucifixion of youth".

Joint Memorial to the Black Watch and Cameron Highlanders

Australian First Division Memorial at Pozières

The Tank Memorial at Pozières

The Windmill Memorial at Pozières

The Mouquet Farm at Pozières

The Kings Royal Rifle Corps Memorial at Pozières

The Pozières British Cemetery and the Pozières Memorial to the Missing

The Thiepval Memorial

Memorial to the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division at Thiepval

The Canadian Memorial at Courcelette

Memorials at Ovillers-la-Boisselle: The Lochnagar Crater

Memorial to the 102nd and 103rd Tyneside Infantry Brigades at La Boiselle

Memorial to the 19th (Western) Division at La Boiselle

The 34th Division Memorial at La Boiselle

Serre Road

The South African Memorial at Delville Wood

Images of Delville Wood

Memorial to the 20th Light Division

Memorial to the 16th (Irish) Division at Guillemont

Guillemont Road Cemetery

Trônes Wood and the 18th Division Memorial

Guards Division Memorial on the road from Ginchy to Lesboeufs

The Memorial to the "Bradford Pals" at Hébuterne

French Military Cemetery at Rancourt

German Military Cemetery at Rancourt

The Grévillers British Cemetery and the Grévillers Memorial

Rancourt British Cemetery

Memorial to the "Salford Pals" at Authuile

The Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux

Newfoundland Memorial Park

Beaucourt Naval Division Memorial

The Piper's Memorial at Longueval

The McCrae's Battalion Memorial

Gallery of images

See also

• List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Alsace
• List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Argonne
• List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Artois
• List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardennes
• List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders
• List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Lorraine
• List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Verdun
• List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the area of the St Mihiel salient

Further reading

• Alexandre Thers. "La Somme L'offensive traqique". ISBN 2-913903-67-3
• "Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battlefields (1914–1918)". ISBN 0 904775 14 3 and 0 904775 19 4 both cover The Somme, the first in 1916 and the second in 1918.
• "Michelin's Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields (1914–1918). Amiens". ISBN 0 904775 59 3.
• Ian Uys. "Longueval". ISBN 0 620 09532 6
• Ray Westlake. "Kitchener's Army" ISBN 1-86227-212-3
• "Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battlefields (1914–1918). Soissons" ISBN 0 904775 89 5.
• G. Gliddon. "VCs Handbook. The Western Front 1914–1918" ISBN 978-0-7509-3545-6
• P. Longworth. "The Unending Vigil" ISBN 1 84415 004-6
• M. Brown. "Book of the Somme" ISBN 0-283-06249-5
• Ian Uys. "Delville Wood" ISBN 0 620 06611 3
• A.H. Farrar-Hockley. "The Somme" ISBN 0 330 28035 X
• Lyn MacDonald. Somme ISBN 0-333-36648-4
• Chris McCarthy. "The Somme. The Day-by-Day Account" ISBN 1-85409-330-4
• Jack Alexander. "McCrae's Battalion" ISBN 1-84018-932-0

References

External links

• France-Searchable French website Enables searches to be made for French soldiers killed in 1914–1918
• Australia- Australian Government website covering the Australian Imperial Force An excellent website for matters concerning the Australian Imperial Force.
• Canada-Canadian Government website Again has facilities to search for Canadian service records of the 1914–1918 war.
• Germany-German website Comprehensive details of German cemeteries, etc.

Articles connexes

1. List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders
2. List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardenne
3. List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Verdun
4. List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Alsace
5. List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Lorraine
6. List of World War I monuments and memorials
7. List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Argonne
8. Thiepval Memorial
9. World War I memorials
10. Battle of the Somme
11. Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial
12. List of Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing in Belgium and France
13. War memorials (Western Somme)
14. List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Pas-de-Calais
15. Mametz Wood Memorial
16. War memorials (Eastern Somme)
17. Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
18. Lists of war monuments and memorials
19. War memorial
20. World War I casualties