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    Beaumont-Hamel (French pronunciation: [bomɔ̃ amɛl]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. During the First World...
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    The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is a memorial site in France dedicated to the commemoration of Dominion of Newfoundland forces members who were...
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    the Reserve Army to attack north from Thiepval Ridge and east from Beaumont Hamel–Hébuterne and for the Fourth Army to reach the Péronne–Bapaume road...
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  • campaign of 1915. Later in the war the regiment was virtually wiped out at Beaumont Hamel on July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, but was rebuilt...
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    The Capture of Beaumont-Hamel was a tactical incident that took place during the Battle of the Somme (1 July – 18 November 1916) in the Battle of the Ancre...
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    Royal Irish Rifles at Hamel. Walter Ritchie, 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany's) at Beaumont Hamel. George Sanders, 1/7th...
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    Ridge Redoubt was a German field fortification, west of the village of Beaumont Hamel on the Somme. The redoubt was built after the end of the Battle of Albert...
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    Vimy Memorial, near Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, and the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, near Beaumont-Hamel, both in France, are ceremonially considered Canadian...
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    The Beaumont Hamel British Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the...
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  • up beaumont in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beaumont may refer to: Beaumont, Alberta Beaumont, Quebec Beaumont, Cumbria Beaumont, Essex Beaumont Cut...
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    loyalty to the Chantilly strategy of 1915 would be upheld. The capture of Beaumont Hamel and Serre would go some way to redeem the failure of 1 July and obtain...
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    town of Albert and 0.75 miles away from Beaucourt Hamel Station. The first attack on Beaumont-Hamel occurred on 1 July 1916. It was carried out by the...
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    Historic Sites of Canada located outside the country, the other being the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial. Vimy Ridge is a gradually rising escarpment on...
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    Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire. A memorial to the 29th Division is located in Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial. Lieutenant-General Beauvoir De Lisle, wartime...
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    World War I situated on the grounds of Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Park near the French town of Beaumont-Hamel. Prior to the Battle of the Somme the...
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    1916, and was later buried in Serre Road Military Cemetery No. 2, near Beaumont-Hamel in northern France. Captain Bonham-Carter's name appears on the war...
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    which after service in the Gallipoli Campaign, was nearly wiped out at Beaumont-Hamel on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916. The regiment, which the...
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    the 1st Newfoundland Regiment from the Dominion of Newfoundland at Beaumont-Hamel on the first day on the Somme during the First World War. Since the...
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    Memorial by Australia, the Delville Wood Memorial by South Africa and the Beaumont-Hamel Memorial by Newfoundland. The programme of commemorating the dead of...
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    artillery park that the Germans are about to bomb during World War I. The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is located only 9 kilometres from the village...
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  • The 51st (Highland) Division Memorial at Beaumont-Hamel is a memorial in France commemorating the soldiers of the 51st (Highland) Division killed during...
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    provinces and three territories, with two sites located in France (the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial and Canadian National Vimy Memorial). There are...
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    injured. In November 1916 he was sheltering in a shell crater near Beaumont-Hamel, France, during the Battle of the Ancre, when he was killed by a German...
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    arms of Nunavut. A caribou statue was erected at the centre of the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, marking the spot in France where hundreds of...
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  • Tyne & Wear, England. Beaumont Provincial Park, a provincial park near Fraser Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Park...
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  • Glenfinnan, Scotland a statue on the 51st (Highland) Division Monument (Beaumont-Hamel), France Highlander (Hansa-Park), gyro drop tower at Hansa-Park Highland...
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    Lorette Verdun Memorial India Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial Newfoundland Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Gueudecourt (Newfoundland) Memorial Masnières...
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  • British colony of Newfoundland, WW1 veteran of the Battle of the Somme (Beaumont-Hamel, France), lighthouse keeper at Fort Amherst, NL and master mariner of...
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    On 1 July 1916, the German Army wiped out most of that regiment at Beaumont Hamel on the first day on the Somme, inflicting 90 percent casualties.[page needed]...
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    commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the Regiment's tragedy at Beaumont Hamel. Critch reached national notoriety after a 22 Minutes piece aired in...
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