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Pictured above: St-Valéry-sur-Somme; St-Riquier belfry; Wissant;
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Links by area (area numbers and headings
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DUNKERQUE |
The
excellent Musée Portuaire has a
rather fancy website telling you about its old ships. The
fascinating story of the Dunkirk Evacuation of May 1940 is unfolded in the Mémorial du Souvenir. |
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The Pays des Géants
website for this attractive Flemish town also has a good diary of coming
events (Accueil-Agenda, and then pick a date on the calendar – and ask for a
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The collections
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WATTEN |
Here is the website of an attractive little town
north-west of St-Omer, a port where the river Aa meets one of the north’s
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BERCK |
Here is a
webcam for the large seaside resort
of Berck |
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HARDELOT |
This is a
webcam view of Hardelot-Plage |
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A link to
the cultural life of Montreuil and
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ALBERT |
Musée Somme 1916 is in a series
of tunnels beneath the town’s large basilica church, now converted into an
atmospheric Here are some rather wonderful photos of the
basilica church of Albert, taken by French photographer Arnaud Fiocret The modern Thiepval Visitor Centre explains British and French action
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Here is a
link to a webcam overlooking the Place des Héros in The collections
of the Arras Musée des Beaux Arts can be viewed here. |
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PÉRONNE |
The Historial de la Grande Guerre is a modern museum behind
the medieval gatehouse of Péronne’s former castle. It gives a good overview
of World War I. |
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX |
The Musée
Franco-Australien, at Villers-Bretonneux, describes the
involvement of Australian forces in World War I. This “Digger history” site has
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LOOS-EN-GOHELLE |
The volunteers of the Alexandre Villedieu museum in Loos have set up an interesting website to give information on the area where the Battle of Loos was fought during WWI.. |
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the museum, or to book a tour of the Double Crassier site, contact the
museum by email |
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The Long Long Trail website has
been created by Chris Baker to present the facts of the British Army during
World War I. It also has a lively forum on which much fascinating information
is exchanged on all topics relating to the Great War – not only in France but
also in other theatres of the war. If you want to know how to research a
particular soldier, there are plenty of hints here. |
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The Great War in a Different Light
is a brilliant website full of contemporary illustrations, photographs and writings
from magazines published at the time. Exhaustively indexed, so you can
quickly reach any subject of particular interest, it has extracts from
publications in English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. |
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The Western Front Association is an organisation that
supports research into the Great War, the renovation of memorials and other
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The
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The National Army Museum, |
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The Historial
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It is strictly forbidden by French law to
use metal detectors in the
département of the Somme. This page (in French) explains
the law in detail, but basically the reason is that so much dangerously
unstable ordnance lies in the soil still (unexploded shells, gas shells,
etc), which kills and maims many people every year. |
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Battle of Arras/Artois April/May 1917 |
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The
Battle of Arras is well explained on this page from the Long Long Trail. |
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An explanation, from an American website,
of the Battle of Arras
and the taking of Vimy Ridge. |
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The
Great War Different site shows contemporary illustrations of the tunnels
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A description of the newly-opened
“Wellington Quarry”, the labyrinth of tunnels beneath |
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Battle of the Lys
April 1918 |
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J Rickard’s site has a good description of the events leading
up to the Battle of the Lys, during the German spring offensive of 1918. |
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Battle of the Somme July-Nov 1916 |
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Battlefield guide Paul Reed has produced an
excellent, fact-packed site about the Somme. Here is a link to the “Visiting the Somme”
pages, with recommendations for accommodation and restaurants in
the area. |
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