Best places: Memorials in Beaumont-Hamel, France

👍👍 It's a fantastic and very moving battlefield of the Somme, run by the Canadian government with still intact British and German frontline fire trenches, cemeteries, monuments and more. Highly recommend visiting. The free car park has a lovely picnic area. The friendly and very polite Canadian tour gu...

👍👍 We took a quick trip over to France from the U.K. to the Somme to visit Thiepval Memorial, sadly a relative of ours didn’t make it passed the Battle for Delville Woods in WW1 and like so many others his name appears on the wall of the memorial along side 72,337 other soldiers that have never been fo...

👍👍 This is just one of 19 craters made at pretty much the same moment along a 9 mile ridge. The chain of detonations instantly killed an estimated 10,000 German soldiers. The night before the detonation the guy in charge of the tunneling teams apparently said; "Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are go...