Best places: Memorials in Noyelles-sous-Lens, France

Large memorial dedicated to Canadians killed fighting in WWI, with a visitor center & museum.

👍👍 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...

👍👍 What an absolute magic place is this. The location on the Hill and the view is stunning. A must visit. So clean. These soldiers that died for us deserve this..

👍👍 Superb memorial to the men and women who fell in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of Northern France during the Great War. Equally, a monument to the futility of war. 500 panels containing almost 580,000 names, representing the fallen from around 40 countries are listed alphabetically with no distincti...

👍👍 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...

😐 Beware, I came on a public holiday and it was shut but this was not noted on their site or published opening hours.

👍👍 South African government needs to do some work or let the Commonwealth War Graves Commission take over running the monument. We learned that there has not been a South African appointed administrator in two years and basically the French staff are operating on autopilot. They are locked out of the d...

Museum in WWII casemates with exhibits recounting the history of the 1940 Battle of Dunkirk.

👍👍 The Faubourg d'Amiens military cemetery in ARRAS (62000), is a memorial dedicated to the 35,942 officers and soldiers of the armies of the British Empire who fell in the battles of Arras during the First World War.

👍👍 beautifully maintained. Lest we forget

👍👍 Got off the ferry in Dunkirk and explored this area and found this lovely monument by the beach. We originally were going to go to the museum but it was near closing time so we parked by it and went a walk with kids to explore the lovely coastline and accidentally found the memorial and a lot of...

👍👍 This place is a reminder of the not only the will of man, but also the horrors of war where old men who never fired a shot sent their best and young to fight. As a veteran myself, I found this place to be moving and emotional, thank you to the locals who have kept this place as stark, beautiful, and...