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Place	Location	Category	Description
Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme(en)	France / Picardie / Thiepval	memorial, First World War 1914-1918, missing, interesting place	Thiepval is the major war memorial to 72089 British and South African men who died in the World War I Battle of the Somme and who have no known grave. The memorial, which dominates the rural scene, has sixteen piers
Adanac Military Cemetery(en)	France / Picardie / Courcelette	military, cemetery, First World War 1914-1918	Adanac Military Cemetery (the name was formed by reversing the name "Canada") was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries surrounding Miraumont, and particularly from the Canadian battlefields round Courcelette. One grave
Le Blockhaus de Eperlecques(en)	France / Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Holque	museum, Second World War 1939-1945, base	During the second world war, the Germans build a large bunker. This bunker was used for producing liquid oxygen and to launch V2 rockets to England. Allied bombardments disabled the complex. Currently the complex is a museum. Visitors are guided
Würzburg Radar Museum in Douvres la Delivrande(en)	France / Basse-Normandie / Anguerny (Douvres la Délivrande)	museum, Second World War 1939-1945, interesting place	A Wurzburg Radar complex left over from World War II. The Wurzburg Radar: satellite dishes had a range of around 30 klm. And were extremely accurate for measuring angels for the hight of incoming aircraft. The base had about 258
"Canada House"(en)	France / Basse-Normandie / Bernieres-sur-Mer	Second World War 1939-1945, canada, invasion, interesting place	First liberated house just after the attack. This house was present on D-Day, it's distinctive roof line is visible in footage and photos taken by Canadians on D-Day. Also known as 'Queen's Own Rifles of Canada House' for the regiment
British War Cemetery(en)	France / Basse-Normandie / Douvres-la-Delivrande (Douvres la Délivrande)	cemetery	WW2
Flatiron Copse Cemetery(en)	France / Picardie / Bazentin	cemetery, First World War 1914-1918
38th Welsh Division Memorial(en)	France / Picardie / Mametz	memorial, First World War 1914-1918	The memorial takes the form of a red Welsh Dragon tearing at barbed wire on top of a 3 metre plinth. It glares across the short distance to the Hammer Head.
High Wood(en)	France / Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Martinpuich	park, forest, battlefield, First World War 1914-1918, bois, interesting place	Infamous location. High Wood is a small forest near Bazentin-le-Petit in the Somme département of northern France which was the scene of intense fighting for two months from 14 July to 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.
Mash Valley(en)	France / Picardie / Ovillers-la-Boisselle	battlefield, First World War 1914-1918, interesting place	At the side of the Albert-Bapaume road in Mash Valley, on the 1st July, the 2nd Middlesex Battalion was wiped out in a matter of minutes. Assailed by machine-guns in the fortified villages of Ovillers and La Boisselle, the battalion
Sausage Valley(en)	France / Picardie / Ovillers-la-Boisselle	First World War 1914-1918, interesting place	Sausage Valley was the scene of heavy fighting during the early stages of the Battle of the Somme. On the first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, the 101st Brigade of the British 34th Division made a failed attack
Hawthorn Redoubt Crater(en)	France / Picardie / Beaumont-Hamel	First World War 1914-1918, interesting place	Crater left by the mine blown under the Hawthorn Redoubt at 7.20 a.m on the morning of 1st July 1916 at the opening of the Somme offensive. The explosion was filmed by Malins and used in the official film of
Approximate position from which Malins filmed the explosion of Hawthorn Redoubt mine.(en)	France / Picardie / Beaumont-Hamel	First World War 1914-1918, interesting place
The Sunken Lane or Hunter's Trench(en)	France / Picardie / Beaumont-Hamel	First World War 1914-1918, interesting place	Troops from the Lancashire Fusiliers were filmed here by Malins shortly before going over to attack German positions in Beaumont Hamel. The explosion of the mine at Hawthorn resulted in the Germans being fully prepared and the attack was a
Y Ravine(en)	France / Picardie / Beaumont-Hamel	battlefield, First World War 1914-1918, interesting place	German defensive position attacked and captured by the 51st Highland Division (including Henry Cowe Shirreffs of the 4th Gordon Highlanders) on the 13th November 1916 in one of the last actions of the Somme Offensive. This attack resulted in the
Ulster Memorial Tower(en)	France / Picardie / Beaucourt-sur-lAncre	memorial, monument, First World War 1914-1918, interesting place	The Ulster Tower overlooks the site of the advance of the 36th Ulster Division on the 1 July 1916. It marks the northern edge of the advance and is a replica of a well known Ulster landmark, Helen's Tower, dating
Butte de Warlencourt(en)	France / Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Le_Sars	hill, military, First World War 1914-1918, interesting place	The Butte de Warlencourt is an ancient burial mound alongside the Albert-Bapaume road, north-east of the village of Le Sars in the Somme département of northern France. During the final stages of the 1916 Battle of the Somme, the Butte
Belleau Wodd German Cemetery(en)	France / Picardie / Torcy-en-Valois	cemetery, First World War 1914-1918	German casualties of the 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood.
Australian Commonwealth War Memorial Battle Le Hamel(en)	France / Picardie / Sailly-le-Sec	memorial, First World War 1914-1918	Memorial to Lieutenant General John Monash and the AIF. Who used the first combined use of forces of aerial, creeping artillery barrage and infantry. Monash was regarded by many Generals after the war as being inventive in his tactics. He
2nd Australian Division Memorial(en)	France / Picardie / Allaines	memorial, First World War 1914-1918	General Henry Rawlinson, described the Australian advances of August 31 – September 4 as the greatest military achievement of the war.[2] During the battle Australian troops stormed, seized and held the key height of Mont-Saint-Quentin (overlooking Péronne), a pivotal German

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