Location de meublé de tourisme*** -Historic Sites of the Great War

Australian National Memorial

Located in Villers Bretonneux, the Australian National Memorial was inaugurated in 1938. It houses a Commonwealth cemetery from the First World War. On its walls are inscribed the names of the 11,000 Australian soldiers who died for France, missing or without burial.

Located at the back of the Australian National Memorial, the Sir John Monash Centre tells the story of these soldiers during the First World War.

Every year on April 25, the ANZAC Day ceremony is held to honour the soldiers who distinguished themselves during the Great War, especially during the battles of 1918.

In the centre of Villers Bretonneux is the Franco-Australian Museum, which was completely renovated in 2016.

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Australian National Memorial

Sir John Monash centre

ANZAC day Villers Bretonneux

Franco Australian Villers Bretonneux Museum

Australian Hamel Memorial

The Le Hamel Memorial pays tribute to the decisive battle of July 4, 1918, during which General Monash led Australian and American troops in a 93-minute tactical battle.

Australians in the Somme

Tribute to Australians

Longueval Memorial Museum

Built behind the Delville Wood Memorial, this museum, which is the replica Cape Town Fort, has been open since 1986 and is a symbol of the struggle of the South Africans alongside the Allies during the various conflicts of the 20th century Century.

Longueval combines memory international at all times! Here, it's first and foremost the fighters New Zealand and South Africa, which have multiplied their acts of arms and acts of Bravery...

This is evidenced by the South African memorial and its museum at Delville Wood, where today the only surviving tree in the battle; obelisk erected in memory of the Kiwi fighters at the place of departure to their heroic capture of Flers; or the wall of Caterpillar Valley Cemetery where include the names of the 1,205 men of the New Zealand Division who perished in the 1916 and whose bodies were never found.

Opening times

Open Tuesday to Sunday:
Early February to early April: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Early April to mid-October: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Mid-October to late November: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The Museum will be closed on May 1, May 8 and November 1, 2018.

Individual and group rates

Prices: free entry

Museum details

Delville Wood Museum of South Africa
5 Ginchy Road
80360 Longueval
03.22.85.02.17
www.delvillewood.com

Lochnagar Crater (glory hole) La Boisselle

Formed by nearly 30 tons of explosives, this hole 90m in diameter and 20 deep, is the only well-preserved testimony of the attack of July 1, 1916 (beginning of the Battle of the Somme) accessible to the public.

On 1 July 1916, the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, La Boisselle was one of the British's priority objectives. At 0728 hours, on either side of the road leading to Bapaume, they detonated two mines under the German lines. Y Sape to the west of the village and Lochnagar Crater to the east. The funnel of the first was refilled after the war, the funnel of the second, still visible, became a place of memory. However, the village will not be captured that day. In fact, at the end of this first deadly day, only Mametz and Montauban, located a little further east, were taken by British troops and it was not until 3 July that La Boisselle fell.

During the German offensive in Picardy in the spring of 1918, the village was lost only to be recaptured on 24 August by the 8th Royal Berks.

A very moving ceremony is held every July 1 at 7:28 a.m.

La Boisselle Picardie 1418

La Boisselle Tourism Sum

Thiepval Commonwealth Memorial

This village evokes the first major engagement of Australian troops in France. The name Pozières has a strong reputation in Australian memory.

The memorials to see in Pozières:
- The blockhouse of "Gibraltar."
- The monument to the 1st Australian Division commemorates all battles on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918.
- The site of the "Wind mill", captured by Australian troops on August 4, 1916.
- The monument to tanks: sober stone obelisk decorated with four models of bronze tanks used in the years 1916-1918.
- The British cemetery and pozières memorial: 2,700 men buried and 14,000 names of engraved soldiers.
- The Animal Memorial (since 2017) honouring the thousands of Australian animals who died in the First World War.

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POZIERES place of remembrance - Tourism sum

Zevisit POZIERES

Historial of the Great War - Thiepval Museum