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updated: Jan 11, 2004
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WWI American Cemetery

Aisne Marne Cemetery and Memorial: The World War I Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial lies south of the village of Belleau (Aisne), France six and one-half miles northwest of Chateau-Thierry.
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery: The World War I Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial is located east of the village of Romagne-sous- Montfaucon (Meuse), France and about twenty-six miles northwest of Verdun.
Somme Cemetery: This fourteen acre cemetery, sited on a gentle slope typical of the open, rolling Picardy countryside contains the graves of 1,844 American military Dead.
Suresnes Cemetery and Memorial: The World War I Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial is located in the suburb of Suresnes five miles west of the center of Paris, the cemetery affords a fine panorama of a large part of Paris.

WWI Australian Cemetery

A.I.F. Australian Burial Ground: Flers is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, nine miles North-East of Albert and four miles South of Bapaume; and the A.I.F. Burial Ground is a mile North-East of the village, on a track known to the Army as Grass Lane. The local name of the site is "Aux Cavées."
Bapaume Australian Cemetery: Bapaume is a commune and small town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. It was the scene of a battle on the 3rd January 1871
Morchies Australian Cemetery: The village was occupied by British troops on the 20th March, 1917; lost on the 21st March, 1918; and retaken in September, 1918

WWI Battlefield

Beamount Hamel: Beaumont-Hamel is a commune in the Department of the Somme, on the right (or West ) bank of the Ancre river, containing the villages of Beaumont-Hamel and Hamel; and the Ancre British Cemetery is 2 kilometres South of the village, on the West side of the Albert-Miraumont road, a little West of the railway and the river.
Belleau Wood: For military historians and battlefield buffs, the wheat fields and farm villages here are rich in the details of heroic attacks, untold sacrifices and ultimate WWI Marine Corps victory.
Bouchavesnes-Bergen (WW1): This village was totally destroyed during World War I.
Mons: The Battle of Mons: 23 August 1914 'Our first battle is a heavy, unheard of heavy, defeat, and against the English - the English we laughed at.' Walter Bloem, Reserve Captain, 12th Brandenburg Grenadier Regiment, 'Vormarsch'
Perronne: Occupied by the Germans in August 1914, the town was almost entirely destroyed in the course of the war. As a centre of major military and logistical activity, especially during the Battle of the Somme,
Pozieres: This site marks the great 1916 offensive in the Somme which was led by the French commander-in-chief Joseph Joffre with the objective of cutting off German communications routes from the northeast.
Verdun: The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700.000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles; whose aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death; a battleground whose once fertile terrain even now resembles a haunted wilderness

WWI British Cemetery

Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery: Achiet-le-Grand is a large village 19 kilometres south of Arras. The Communal Cemetery Extension containing the Commonwealth war graves is situated at the north-west side of the village alongside the Communal Cemetery
Assevillers New British Cemetery: Assevillers is a village and commune in the department of the Somme, 6 miles south-west of Peronne and 1.5 miles North of the Amiens - Vermand main road. The village was taken by the French in the autumn of 1916. evacuated by the 5th Army on the 26th March 1918, and retaken by the 5th Australian Division, 28th August 1918.
Bazentin-Le-Petit BritishCemetery: Bazentin is a commune in the Department of the Somme, to the North-East of Albert, containing the villages of Bazentin-le-Grand and Bazentin-le-Petit. The Military Cemetery is behind a group of cottages on the west side of the village
Bazentin-Le-Petit Communal British Extension: Bazentin is a commune in the Department of the Somme, to the North-East of Albert, containing the villages of Bazentin-le-Grand and Bazentin-le-Petit. The Communal Cemetery of the latter village is on the East side of it, and is joined on the North by the Extension
Beaulencourt British Cemetery: Beaulencourt is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais; and Beaulencourt British Cemetery, in the neighbouring commune of Ligny-Thilloy, is about half way between the villages of Beaulencourt and Ligny-Thilloy, on the north side of the road
Beaumetz Cross Roads Cemetery: Beaumetz-les-Cambrai is a village 1 kilometre south of the N30, Cambrai to Bapaume road. Beaumetz Crossroads Cemetery lies to the south of the village on the road to Hermies
Beaumetz-les-Cambrai Military Cemetery No. 1: was formed as a result of casualties among the 25th and 51st (Highland) Divisions when they were overwhelmed by the great German attack in March 1918. The savagery of the fighting can be judged from the many mass graves in the plot. The photographer is standing next to the main N30 Bapaume-Cambrai road, looking towards the South-East, on a December morning. The visitor can appreciate from here the wide-open vistas of the rolling country around Cambrai.
Beaumont Hamel British Cemetery: Beaumont-Hamel is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, immediately North of Mesnil-Martinsart and now contains a number of British Cemeteries
Bentincourt Chateau British Cemetery: Bertincourt is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais on the RD7 Bapaume to Gouzeaucourt road, 4.5 kilometres south of the RN30 Bapaume-Cambrai road.
Bernafay Wood Cemetery: Taken by 9th (Scot.) Div. July 3rd-4th 1916; same Div. was driven from wood Mar. 25th 1918, recaptured it for a time, finally regained by 18th Div. Aug 27th.
Brie British Cemetery: Brie is a village on the N29 Amiens-St Quentin road. The Cemetery lies on the left side of the D88 road about 1 kilometre from Brie in the direction of St Crist-Briost.
Bulls Road British Cemetery: Bulls Road cemetery, located on the Somme and in the village of Flers, contains 485 U.K., 148 Australian, 120 New Zealand and 2 unknown burials. 15 special memorials are also located in the cemetery. Flers was the site of the first use of tanks at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September 1916.
Carnoy British Cemetery: Carnoy is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, six miles East-South-East of Albert. The Military Cemetery is on the South side of the village.
Caterpiller Valley Cemetery: Caterpillar Valley was the name given by the Army to the long valley which rises eastward, past Caterpillar Wood, to the high ground at Guillemont. The cemetery contains the graves of 5,511 officers and men. The majority fell in the autumn of 1916 and the remainder in either August or September 1918. The cemetery covers an area of 14,832 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall. Near the East side of the cemetery is a Memorial to those New Zealand soldiers who fell in the Battle of the Somme and whose graves are not known.
Combles Cemetery: The large village of Combles is 16 kilometres east of Albert and 13 kilometres south of Bapaume. From Bapaume take the N17 towards Peronne. Just after the village of Suilly Suillisel, take the D172 towards Combles. The Communal Cemetery is on the right just before the village, and the Extension is at the back, or north-east, of the Communal Cemetery.
Connaught Cemetery: Connaught Cemetery was begun during the early autumn of 1916, and at the Armistice it contained 228 graves.
Courcelette British Cemetery: Courcelette is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, seven miles North-East of Albert, on the North side of the Albert-Bapaume Road. The British Cemetery is half a mile South-West of the village.
Delsaux Farm Cemetery: This cemetery is near the village of Beugny, 19 kilometres south-west of Cambrai on the RN30 Bapaume-Cambrai road. The RD20 Haplincourt/Roquiny forms a T junction with the RN30 at the Mairie in Beugny.
Delville Wood Cemetery: The Bois Delville (or d'Elville) was a tract of woodland, nearly 1 kilometre square, the Western edge of which touched the village of Longueval in the Somme, while its Eastern edge marked the boundary of the commune of Ginchy
Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension: Doingt is a small village on the eastern outskirts of Peronne, on the left hand side of the D44 road to Ham and St. Quentin. The Cemetery is signposted from the centre of the village on the D199 road (towards Tincourt) and is situated behind the Communal Cemetery, which is to the left of the church.
Ennemain Communal Cemetery Extension: Ennemain Communal Cemetery is situated 10 kilometres south-south-east of Peronne on the edge of the village of Ennemain. The Cemetery is reached by entering the village of Athies (D937) towards Ham; from here the cemetery is signposted. The Extension is located at the rear of the Communal Cemetery
Eterpigny Cemetery: Eterpigny is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. From Vis-en-Artois take the D939 towards Cambrai until you come to a roundabout. Take the D956 to Dury, followed by a 2 kilometre track to the cemetery.
Eterpigny Communal Cemetery Extension: Eterpigny is a small village 2 kilometres south of Peronne on the N17. The Extension, where the war graves are situated, is behind the Communal Cemetery and is signposted from the centre of the village
Five Points Cemetery: Lechelle is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres south-east of Bapaume, and Five Points Cemetery is one kilometre south-east of the village.
Flatiron Copse Cemetery: Mametz is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, four miles East of Albert. A little North of it is Mametz Wood, and a little East of Mametz Wood id the small plantation known to the Army as Flatiron Copse.
Gosselies Cemetery: Gosselies Communal Cemetery is located 5 km north of Charlero
Grandcourt Road Cemetery: Grandcourt is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, on the left bank of the Ancre river, North of Thiepval. It lies between Beaucourt-Hamel and Miraumont.
Grevillers British Cemetery: Grevillers is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, two miles West of Bapaume; and the British Cemetery is on the north side of the road to Bapaume.
Guards Cemetery: Guards Cemetery is on the South-Western outskirts of the village of Combles, 67 metres from a by road leading to Maurepas
Guard's Cemetery, Lesboeufs: LESBOEUFS is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, about 11 kilometres East of Albert; and the Guards' Cemetery is 1 kilometre South?West of the village, on the North?West side of the road to Ginchy. The nearest convenient railway station is at Albert
Guillemont Road Cemetery: GUILLEMONT is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, 13 kilometres East of Albert. Guillemont Road Cemetery is between the village and Trones Wood, on the North side of the road to Montauban
Hawthorne Ridge 1 Cemetery: Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No. 1 is 230 metres South of Beaumont-Hamel - Auchonvillers road, on the North slope of the ridge, and about on the old front line of July, 1916.
Hawthorne Ridge 2 Cemetery: Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.2 is 460 metres South of Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No. 1, a little West of the top of "Y" Ravine. It was made by the V Corps (as V Corps Cemetery No.12).
Hem Farm Military Cemetery: Monacu and Hem-Monacu are two villages about 13 kilometres south-east of Albert, a little south of the road from Albert to Peronne and north of the River Somme. 16 kilometres from Albert on the D938 (Albert-Peronne), turn south on to the D146 to Hem-Monacu. After 500 metres turn west onto the D1 to Curlu. Continue for 1.2 kilometres and then turn south. Hem Farm Military Cemetery can be seen next to a large farmhouse 300 metres down this road. Hem Farm Military Cemetery lies to the west of the village of Hem.
Herbécourt British Cemetery: Herbecourt is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, on the Amiens-Peronne road 8 kilometres west of Peronne. The British Cemetery is situated on the D1 road after leaving the village in the direction of Bray-sur-Somme
Hunters Cemetery: Beaumont-Hamel is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme. It was attacked in vain on 1st July, 1916, and captured by the 51st (Highland) and 63rd (Royal Naval) Divisions on the following 13th November.
Lebucquiere Communal Extention: Lebucquiere is a village 8 kilometres east of Bapaume and about 2 kilometres south of the main straight road from Bapaume to Cambrai.
London Extention Cemetery: Longueval is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, 7½ miles east-north-east of Albert. High Wood, so named by the Commonwealth Forces, from its position on the top of a windswept hill, is known locally as the Bois de Fourreaux (or Fourcault) and is in Flers, about a 1¼ miles north-west of Longueval.
Longueval Road Cemetery: The site of Longueval, with its Delville Wood, honors the memory of all the South African soldiers who died during both the First and the Second World Wars.
Louverval Military Cemetery: The small village of Louverval is on the north side of the N30, Bapaume to Cambrai road, 13 kilometres north-east of Bapaume, 16 kilometres south-west of Cambrai. Louverval Military Cemetery is situated on the north side of the N30, south of Louverval village. At the Cemetery. On a terrace within the cemetery will also be found the Cambrai Memorial.
Manchester Cemetery: Riencourt-les-Bapaume is a village 3 kilometres south-east of Bapaume.
Marcoing Cemetery: Marcoing and Masnieres were captured by the 29th Division on the 20th November, 1917, the first day of the Battle of Cambrai. On the 30th November and the 1st December, Masnieres was held by the same Division against repeated attacks
Martinpuich Cemetery: Martinpuich is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, immediately North of Bazentin in the Somme. It was captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the 15th Spetember, 1916, lost in April, 1918, and retaken in August, 1918.
Masnieres Cemetery
Mill Road Cemetery: Thiepval is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme. The village is a little East of the river Ancre, about 5km above Albert, and between the village and the river was Thiepval Wood. The village was destroyed in the war, but the existence of the commune after a long period of uncertainty was preserved.
Morval British Cemetery
Pargny British Cemetery: Pargny British Cemetery was made after the Armistice, by concentrations from the surrounding battlefields; the majority of the burials are those of officers and men of the 61st (South Midland) and 8th Divisions, whose resistance at the Somme crossings on the 24th March, 1918
Péronne Communal Cemetery Extension: Peronne was taken by the German on 24 September 1914. On 18 March 1917, the 40th and 48th Divisions captured the town, but it was recovered by the Germans on the 23rd March 1918
Péronne Road Cemetery: MARICOURT is a commune and a large village in the Department of the Somme, on the North side of the road from Albert to Peronne. The nearest convenient railway station is at Albert. The village was, at the beginning of the Battles of the Somme, 1916, the point of junction of the British and French forces, and within a very short distance of the front line; it was lost in the German advance of March, 1918, and recaptured at the end of the following August.
Quarry Cemetery, Montauban: Montauban village was taken by the 30th and 18th Divisions on the 1st July 1916 and remained in British hands until March 1918. It was retaken on the 25th August 1918 by the 7th Buffs and the 11th Royal Fusiliers of the 18th Division
Red Cross Corner Cemetery: Between February 1917 and March 1918 when the front line was some way to the east facing Cambrai, Beugny was an important location for heavy artillery, transport and medical facilities. This plot was begun at that time, but enlarged when captured by the enemy, who buried 350 of their dead and 35 British who had fallen in their advance.The German graves were removed after the Armistice, and the British graves among them were transferred partly to Delsaux Farm Cemetery and partly to Favreuil British Cemetery. There are now over 200 British war casualties commemorated in this site.
Regina Trench Cemetery: Grandcourt village was reached by part of the 36th (Ulster) Division on the 1st July, 1916, and occupied without fighting by patrols of the Howe Battalion early in February, 1917. To the South-East of it is Courcelette, taken by the 2nd Canadian Division on the 15th September, 1916.
Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery: Rocquigny and Equancourt are two villages in the Department of the Somme, some 13 kilometres north of Peronne and 12 kilometres south-east of Bapaume. Rocquigny and Equancourt are approximately 8 kilometres apart and the Rocquigny-Equancourt British Cemetery lies about halfway between the two villages on the north side of the road just west of the crossing road from Etricourt to Ytres.
Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery: Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery is 16 kilometres east of Albert and 10 kilometres south of Bapaume. The Cemetery is on the right hand side
Stump Road Cemetery: Grandcourt is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, on the East (or left) bank of the Ancre, about five miles from Albert. Stump Road was a sunken road running south from the village up the hillside towards Pozieres, and Stump Road Cemetery is forty yards to the West of that road, half a mile from the village.
Suzanne Communal Cemetery Extension: Suzanne is a village in the Department of the Somme about 13 kilometres south-east of Albert. Suzanne Communal Cemetery is 350 metres north-west of the village on the road from Albert and the Extension is on the south-east side of the Cemetery.
Suzanne Military Cemetery No.3: Suzanne is a village in the Department of the Somme on the right bank of the Somme River, about 13 kilometres south-east of Albert. Suzanne Military Cemetery No. 3 is north of the village near the east of the road to Maricourt.
Thiepval Cemetery: This cemetery is by the Thiepval Memorial, on the D73, off the main Bapaume to Albert road
Thilloy Road Cemetery: BEAULENCOURT is a village and commune in the extreme South of the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, on the road from Bapaume to Peronne; and Thilloy Road Cemetery is nearly a mile West of the village, 200 yards North of the road to Ligny-Thilloy. Ligny-Thilloy was captured in March, 1917, and Beaulencourt was occupied later in the same month. They were lost on the 24th-25th March, 1918, and recovered after severe fighting at the end of August.
Thistle Dump Cemetery
Warlencourt British Cemetery: Warlencourt British Cemetery lies on the east side of the D929, to the south-east of Warlencourt village and 5 kilometres south-west of Bapaume.
Y Ravine Cemetery: The cemetery was made by V Corps in the spring of 1917, when these battlefields were cleared. (It was originally called "Y" Ravine Cemetery No.1.)

WWI British/Canadian Cemeteries

Adanac Cemetery: Adanac Military Cemetery (the name was formed by reversing the name "Canada") was made after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields and small cemeteries surrounding Miraumont, and particularly from the Canadian battlefields round Courcelette. One grave (Plot IV, Row D, Grave 30) was left where it is.

WWI British/German Cemetery

Bancourt British Cemetery: Bancourt is a village which lies approximately 4 kilometres due east of Bapaume
St Symphorien Cemetery: ST. SYMPHORIEN is a village and commune in the Province of Hainaut, 5 kilometres South East of Mons on the main road to Charleroi. The Military Cemetery is 1 kilometre South of the village, in the neighbouring commune of Spiennes, in the South West corner of the intersection of two sunken roads.

WWI British/Indian Cemetery

La Chapelette Cemetery: At the southern edge of the town, the tiny British cemetery of La Chapelette with its Australian, Indian and Egyptian tombs recalls the participation of the former colonies or Commonwealth Dominion in the conflict. Each gravestone bears the name of the soldier in English
La Chappellette Cemetery

WWI German Cemetery

Rancourt Cemetery: This village, like all those nearby, was entirely destroyed during the Great War.

WWI Monument

Australian Monument: Situated some six miles from Albert this obelisk memorial sits on the forward slope of Pozieres Ridge. The memorial commemorates the 5,285 men of the division who became casualties at Pozieres.
Cambrai Memorial: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE ENDURING MEMORY OF 7048 OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE FORCES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI BETWEEN THE 20TH. NOVEMBER AND THE 3RD. DECEMBER 1917, WHOSE NAMES ARE HERE RECORDED BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNES OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH
New Zealand Monument
Newfoundland Memorial, Gueudecourt: One of five Caribou memorials erected by the Newfoundland government following the First World War
South African Monument: In 1916 the wood known as Bois d'Elville, near Longueval (9 miles from Albert), (and christened 'Devil's Wood' by allied troops) was a major German defensive feature.
Thiepval Memorial: The Memorial erected at Thiepval is one of those set up by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to mark the battlefields of the Great War and to record the names of those officers and men of the British Armies who fell and whose graves are not known. As a Battle Memorial, it witnesses to the Anglo-French offensive on the Somme in 1916

WWI Polish Cemetery

Urville Cemetery

WWII American Cemetery

Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial: This forty-two acre cemetery with the headstones lying in a sweeping curve at the foot of the hill where stands Belleau Wood. It contains the graves of 2,289 American Dead, most of whom fought in the vicinity and in the Marne valley in the summer of 1918.
Lorraine American Cemetery: The cemetery, one hundred and thirteen acres in extent, contains 10,489 American Military Dead, the largest number in our military cemeteries of World War II Dead in Europe.
Normandy Cemetery and Memorial: The World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is situated on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach.

WWII Battlefield

Arromanches: Artificial harbor built at Arromanches in the first days after the invasion.
Batterie De Longues: Sited on a clifftop outside of the coastal town on Longues-Sur-Mer this is large coastal battery. It consists of four 155mm guns mounted in four seperate bunkers plus another command bunker equipped with rangefinders balanced right on the edge of the cliff.
Bayeaux
Blosville: The Blosville area was a prime landing site for gliders and airborne troops and both the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions suffered many casualties in the vicinity.
Normandy
Omaha Beach: Most people refer to the landing on Omaha Beach as Bloody Omaha. OMAHA was a critical beach which had 100 feet high cliffs overlooking 4 miles of sand. The operation here might have been a total disaster and endangered the success of the Allied invasion if it had not been for the spirit and determination of small groups of soldiers.
Point Du Hoc: Pointe du Hoc is a promontory situated between two landing beaches that were taken by American forces in the Normandy Invasion.
St Mére-Eglise: The first French town liberated by the Allies during the World War II Normandy Invasion.
St. Lo
Utah Beach: Utah Beach, the most favorable Cotentin site, destined to become Utah Beach, centered on Les Dunes de Varville just north of the Vire Estuary.

WWII Canadian Cemetery

Bretteville Cemetery: The cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) about 14 kilometres south of Caen and just north of the village of Cintheaux. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the cemetery.