Monument à la 16e division irlandaise de Guillemont

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The monument to the 16th Irish Division is a World War I memorial located in Guillemont, Somme Department.

History: The Guillemont monument commemorates fighting in the 16th Irish Division for the capture of the village of Guillemont on September 3, 1916, during the Battle of the Somme. On 3 September 2016, as part of the centennial celebration of the Battle of the Somme, Arlene Foster, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and Martin Mac Guiness, Prime Minister of Ireland and his Deputy, Heather Humphreys, Minister of Arts and Heritage of the Republic of Ireland, and Géraldine Byrne-Nason, Ambassador of Ireland to France, took part in an official ceremony in which the names of the 1,161 Irish and 116 French people who died during the fighting in Guillemont and Ginchy were read.

Located right next to the church of Guillemont, the monument to the 16th Irish division, in the heart of the village, has the shape of a simple stone Celtic cross. It is decorated with the Irish clover and pays tribute to the 16th Irish division, which succeeds, after a hard fight to take Guillemont...