This article lists the memorials and cemeteries around the area of the river Somme.
Memorial to the Liverpool and Manchester Pals at Montauban
7th Yorkshire Regiment Memorial at Fricourt
Statue of Marshal Foch at Bouchavesnes
Memorial to 18th Division at Thiepval
Memorial to the 46th Division at Bellenglise
Memorial at Flers
The New Zealand Memorial at Longueval
New Zealand Memorial to the Missing at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery
Memorial to the 38th (Welsh) Division at Mametz Wood
Mametz Wood was to be the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the opening days of the Battle of the Somme as taking the wood involved advancing uphill and over open ground whilst facing heavy machine gun fire and artillery. By 12 July the woods had been cleared of Germans but at a heavy cost with over 4,000 Welsh deaths and casualties. The Mametz memorial takes the form of a Welsh dragon challenging the wood to its fore. At one side of the base is carved the regimental cap badge of the South Wales Borderers. The sculptural work was by David Petersen.
The 38th (Welsh) Division was very much the result of personal initiatives by Lloyd George and was the Welsh equivalent of the "Pals" battalions from the North of England. So awful was the fighting here that a Welsh soldier, Wyn Griffith, described it as "the horror of our way of life and death and of our crucifixion of youth".
Joint Memorial to the Black Watch and Cameron Highlanders
Australian First Division Memorial at Pozières
The Tank Memorial at Pozières
The Windmill Memorial at Pozières
The Mouquet Farm at Pozières
The Kings Royal Rifle Corps Memorial at Pozières
The Pozières British Cemetery and the Pozières Memorial to the Missing
The Thiepval Memorial
Memorial to the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division at Thiepval
The Canadian Memorial at Courcelette
Memorials at Ovillers-la-Boisselle: The Lochnagar Crater
Memorial to the 102nd and 103rd Tyneside Infantry Brigades at La Boiselle
Memorial to the 19th (Western) Division at La Boiselle
The 34th Division Memorial at La Boiselle
Serre Road
The South African Memorial at Delville Wood
Images of Delville Wood
Memorial to the 20th Light Division
Memorial to the 16th (Irish) Division at Guillemont
Guillemont Road Cemetery
Trônes Wood and the 18th Division Memorial
Guards Division Memorial on the road from Ginchy to Lesboeufs
The Memorial to the "Bradford Pals" at Hébuterne
French Military Cemetery at Rancourt
German Military Cemetery at Rancourt
The Grévillers British Cemetery and the Grévillers Memorial
Rancourt British Cemetery
Memorial to the "Salford Pals" at Authuile
The Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux
Newfoundland Memorial Park
Beaucourt Naval Division Memorial
The Piper's Memorial at Longueval
The McCrae's Battalion Memorial
Gallery of images
See also
List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Alsace
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Argonne
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Artois
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardennes
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders
List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Lorraine
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Verdun
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the area of the St Mihiel salient
Further reading
Alexandre Thers. "La Somme L'offensive traqique". "Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battlefields (1914–1918)". and 0 904775 19 4 both cover The Somme, the first in 1916 and the second in 1918. "Michelin's Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields (1914–1918). Amiens". . Ian Uys. "Longueval". Ray Westlake. "Kitchener's Army" "Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battlefields (1914–1918). Soissons" . G. Gliddon. "VCs Handbook. The Western Front 1914–1918" P. Longworth. "The Unending Vigil" M. Brown. "Book of the Somme" Ian Uys. "Delville Wood" A.H. Farrar-Hockley. "The Somme" Lyn MacDonald. Somme Chris McCarthy. "The Somme. The Day-by-Day Account" Jack Alexander. "McCrae's Battalion"
