Circuit du Souvenir

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The Remembrance Circuit consists of a collection of memorial sites of the Great War between Peronne and Albert and its surroundings, in the department of the Somme. It is 92 km long and connects the main fighting sites of the Battle of the Somme of 1916 with some sites of the Battle of Kaiser and the 1918 Hundred Days offensive.

Main sites: The main sites of the Remembrance circuit are classified by commune in the order of the circuit in the direction : Peronne - Beaumont-Hamel - Albert. - Peronne.

The city of Peronne has several places of memory of the Great War.

Monument to the 2nd Australian Division: At Mont-Saint-Quentin, the monument opened in 1971 replaces that of 1925, which was dismantled and melted by the Germans in 1940.

British military cimetières: British and Indian military cemetery of La Chapelette: these are, in fact, two cemeteries whose entrance is common. In this necropolis, there are the graves of 577 soldiers (207 British, 320 Indians, 49 Australians and 1 New Zealander) plus 3 Egyptian workers of the Egyptian Labour Corps who died in...