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With the help of hiking, biking and nature trails through its beautiful valley, the Conseil départemental de la Somme invites you to discover an often unexplored part of the Somme Battlefields!
A new interpretation centre telling the story of Australia's experience of the Western Front in France and Belgium during the First World War opened in April 2018.
The village of Villers-Bretonneux opened a museum on the top floor of the school in the 1970s which has just been entirely renovated.
With the help of hiking, biking and nature trails through its beautiful valley, the Conseil départemental de la Somme invites you to discover an often unexplored part of the Somme Battlefields!
On Sunday 25 March, commemorations were held in the Somme to mark the 100th anniversary of the Inter-Allied Single Command, established in Doullens on 26 March 1918.
The Somme Departmental Council has always placed great importance upon involving the younger generations in the commemorations of the Battle of the Somme and teaching them about their own local history during the Great War.
The New Thiepval Museum themed on the battles of the Somme and the Missing was opened on 2nd June 2016 by the French Minister of State for Veterans and Remembrance and the President of the Somme Departmental Council.
New book by the creators of the Missing of the Somme Database, which can be viewed at the Thiepval Visitor Centre: this book is not a military history of the Battle of the Somme. Instead it is a selection of short biographies of some of the men commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial of the Missing of the Somme.
