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Beaumont-Hamel

Field	Value
name	Beaumont-Hamel
commune status	Commune
image	Beaumont 4.JPG
caption	The monument to the dead, in Beaumont-Hamel
image coat of arms	Blason ville fr Savigny-sur-Braye (Loir-et-Cher).svg
arrondissement	Péronne
canton	Albert
INSEE	80069
postal code	80300
mayor	Agnes Briet-Lavaquerie
term	2020–2026
intercommunality	CC du Pays du Coquelicot
coordinates
elevation m	75
elevation min m	70
elevation max m	148
area km2	8.31
population
population date
population footnotes

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Savigny-sur-Braye (Loir-et-Cher).svg

Beaumont Hamel Dedication Ceremony to Newfoundland Regiment

Beaumont-Hamel () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Battle of the Somme in 1916]] (red – British front line, blue – German fortifications).

During the First World War, Beaumont-Hamel was close to the front line, near many attacks, especially during the Battle of the Somme, one of the largest allied offensives of the war.

On 1 July 1916, the First Day of the Somme, the 29th Division assaulted the German front line in an attempt to capture the village as part of the Somme Offensive. Included in this division was the Newfoundland Regiment. Newfoundland commemorates this event as Memorial Day on 1 July each year.

Its capture by the 51st (Highland) Division on 18 November 1916 marked the end of the Battle of the Somme. Fought over for many years, by 1918, the village had been almost totally destroyed.

The banks of white chalk at Beaumont-Hamel led to a sector of British trenches being nicknamed "White City". To the west of the village was Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt, one of the sites of the mines exploded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

The fields around Beaumont-Hamel after the Battle of the Somme.

Notable sights

As there was heavy fighting in this area during the Great War, there are many cemeteries and monuments, among which:

A number of British cemeteries (among which Beaumont-Hamel British Cemetery)
Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial. One of only two National Historic Sites of Canada outside Canada (the other being the Canadian National Vimy Memorial) and includes three British Cemeteries (Y Ravine Cemetery, Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No. 2 and Hunter's Cemetery) as well as the Scottish Monument and a memorial to the 29th division (of which the Newfoundland Regiment was a part).
Hawthorn Ridge Crater

References

(2 December 2020). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires".
(June 5, 2014). "White City', located near Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme, 1916. {{!}} British Army First World War".
[https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/17901/BEAUMONT-HAMEL%20BRITISH%20CEMETERY/ Beaumont-Hamel British Cemetery on the CWGC website]
[https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/79000/BEAUMONT-HAMEL%20(NEWFOUNDLAND)%20MEMORIAL/ Beaumont-Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial on the CWGC website]

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