Somme battlefields memorials

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Somme battlefields memorials are a collection of monuments, cemeteries, and commemorative sites in northern France honoring those who fought and died in the First World War’s Battle of the Somme.

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf commemorative landscape
war memorial ensemble
associatedWith Somme battlefields memorials self-linksurface differs
surface form: Somme battlefields

Western Front
commemoratesConflict Battle of the Somme
commemoratesWar World War I
surface form: First World War
country France
hasPart Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux
Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial
Caterpillar Valley Cemetery
Commonwealth war cemeteries
surface form: Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries on the Somme

South African National Museum and Memorial at Delville Wood
surface form: Delville Wood South African National Memorial

French national cemeteries on the Somme
German military cemeteries on the Somme
Lochnagar Crater memorial site
Pozieres Memorial
Serre Road Cemetery No. 2
Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Ulster Tower
surface form: Ulster Tower Memorial
heritageDesignation protected historic sites (France)
includesDominionMemorialsFor Australia
Canada
India
New Zealand
island of Newfoundland
surface form: Newfoundland

South Africa
locatedIn Hauts-de-France
surface form: Hauts-de-France region

Somme (department)
surface form: Somme department

northern France
maintainedBy Imperial War Graves Commission
surface form: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Ministry of the Armed Forces of France
surface form: French Ministry of the Armed Forces

Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
notableFeature large concentration of military cemeteries
monuments to missing soldiers without known graves
periodOfConstruction interwar period
post-First World War
primaryCommemoratedForces British forces
Dominion forces
French forces
German forces
purpose commemoration of the dead
education about the First World War
remembrance of military service
significantDate 1 July 1916
11 November
tourismType battlefield tourism
visitorActivities guided battlefield tours
individual grave visits
remembrance ceremonies

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Subject: Somme battlefields memorials
Description of subject: Somme battlefields memorials are a collection of monuments, cemeteries, and commemorative sites in northern France honoring those who fought and died in the First World War’s Battle of the Somme.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme partOf Somme battlefields memorials
Albert nearBattlefield Somme battlefields memorials
this entity surface form: Somme battlefields
Lochnagar Crater partOf Somme battlefields memorials
this entity surface form: Somme battlefields
Lochnagar Crater hasCategory Somme battlefields memorials
this entity surface form: Battle of the Somme memorials
Thiepval, Somme, France partOf Somme battlefields memorials
this entity surface form: Somme battlefields
Somme battlefields memorials associatedWith Somme battlefields memorials self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Somme battlefields
Albert, France locatedNear Somme battlefields memorials
this entity surface form: Somme battlefields