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Beaumont Hamel
On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, 801 soldiers of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment rose from the British trenches and went into battle at Beaumont-Hamel, nine kilometers north of Albert in France. After only 30 minutes the regiment was devastated. Only 68 men stood to answer the regimental roll call the next morning. 255 were dead, 386 were wounded, and 91 were listed as missing in action and presumed dead. Every officer who had gone over the top was either wounded or dead. The Caribou memorial overlooks the ground across which the regiment advanced. (Source: Wikipedia)
Fouquereuil : Sandpits British Cemetery
Ovillers : Military Cemetery
Thiepval : Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Thiepval : The Ulster Tower
Vimy Ridge : Canadian Memorial
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