Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial — Attraction in Péronne

I really like this place because it captures all the horror and hardships that the Newfoundland Regiment had to endure. It gives us a very very slight idea of whatitwas like to b there with all bombs and guns going off all around the BRAVE young men getting killed and wounded. It shows what they had to get across and actually how far they got. Another thing is the Caribou. It is a very MAJESTICSAND PROUD animal and i think that it was perfect choice for this memorial. I can tell that this place is so well looked after but most of all RESPECTED due to the massive sacrifice thst was made there. I lost TWO GREAT UNCLES there so like many other NEWFOUNDLANDERS my family had to endure the terrible news that shook this island so much. The way that they have this memorial done capture the Real Beauty and Difficult landscapes they came upon. This memorial is so well looked after thst u can cand feel the PRIDE that these young men had when they voluntered for service. By looking at this place it installs PRIDE in me to b a NEWFOUNDLANDER . I THANK U FROM BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR YOUR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE that u did. May u all REST IN PEACE and HAVE GODS BLESSING. U will never...

The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial site is situated north of Albert, France near the village of Beaumont-Hamel in an area containing numerous cemeteries and memorials related to the Battle of the Somme.The site is one of the few places on the former Western Front where a visitor can see the trench lines of the First World War and the related terrain in a preserved natural state. It is the largest site dedicated to the memory of the Newfoundland Regiment, the largest battalion memorial on the Western Front, and the largest area of the Somme battlefield that has been preserved. Although the site was founded to honour the memory of the Newfoundland Regiment, it also contains a number of memorials as well as three cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission The site is popular location for battlefield tours the site is also an important location in the burgeoning field of First World War battlefield archaeology, because of its preserved and largely undisturbed state. The ever increasing number of visitors to the Memorial has resulted in the authorities taking measures to control access by fencing off certain areas of the former...

It's not difficult at all, to see the trenches and craters, as they were over a century ago. The layout is preserved, even the barbed wire steel posts are still in place, eerily poking up from the poc-marked landscape. The "death tree" is cast in place, marking the point of which the German guns would cut down the allied soldiers. The imposing statue of a Canadian Caribou, stood upon a rocky platform, majestically calling out accross the battlefield. The small museum, manned and maintained by more, wonderfully friendly and polite Canadians, is full of poignant tales and personal possessions of some of the many Canadians and Newfoundlanders, who fought here. With plenty of parking, a well organised thought provoking museum, this is a thoroughly worthwhile way to spend some time and pay respect to grandparents and great...