World War I Commemorations in
France in 2008
Nederlandse versie, |
In France: |
Paris
- every day of the year at 18,30 hrs. precisely:
Short ceremony at the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in the presence
of delegations of war veterans.
Info: Comité de la Flamme, Arc de
Triomphe, Place Charles de Gaulle, F-75008 Paris.
Verdun.
Website:
http://www.memorial-14-18.com
Canadian National Vimy Memorial - 9 April
Inauguration of the restored monument for the 90th anniversary of the battle of
Vimy Ridge.
Info:
http://www.af.ca/-Celebrations-.html
Info:
Vimy
Ridge National Historic site of Canada, 62580 Vimy.
T: +33-3 21 50 68 68. Fax: +33-3 21 58 58 34.
E-mail: Vimy.Memorial@vac-acc.gc.ca.
Villers-Bretonneux
(Somme) - 25 April
Anzac Day
Commemoration at the Australian National Memorial and Cemetery.
Info:
Mairie (Town Hall). F-80300 Villers-Bretonneux.
T: +33-3-22 48 03 06.
Info: http://www.anzac.org
Australian Memorial and cemetery in Villers-Bretonneux, Somme (France).
See
website: http://webmatters.net/france/ww1_villers_bret.htm
La
Boisselle (Somme) - 1 July
Commemorative ceremony at the Lochnagar Crater (07,20 hrs.).
Info: Office
du Tourisme. 9 rue Gambetta, B.P.92,F-80300 Albert (Somme).
T: +33-3-22 75
16 42. Fax: +33-3-22 75 11 72.
Info
:
Friends
of Lochnagar Crater Memorial.
M. Richard Dunning.
Little Down, Hog's
Back, Seale; Surrey GU10 1HD.
T: +44-1483-81 06 51.
Burial on 1st July, 2000, at Ovillers Cemetery (Somme) of Private George Nugent
(27th December, 1887 - 1st July, 1916)
of the 3rd Tyneside Scottish Regiment,
who'se remains were found
84 years later at the Lochnagar Crater in La Boisselle
.
NUGENT, Pte George 22/1306 22nd (Tyneside Scottish) Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
Died 1st July 1916. Age 28. Son of William and Emma (nee Pleasents) ; husband
of Nora Nugent of 34 Frankling Street, Shieldfield, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Buried
1st July 2000. I. A. 26A.
Source: http://www.silentcities.co.uk/cemeteryo/Ovillers%20Military%20Cemetery.htm
The
Lochnagar crater at La Boisselle.
"Fields of Memory" - Landscapes
of the Great War
Beaumont-Hamel
(Somme) - 1 July
Commemorative
ceremony of the Sacrifice of the Newfoundland Regiment on 1 July, 1916 and thereafter
till 1918.
Background
music: "Flowers
of the Forest"
Source: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6784/
Info: Newfoundland
Memorial Park. F-80300 Beaumont-Hamel (Somme).
T: +33-3-22 76 20 22.
Info: Office du Tourisme. 9 rue Gambetta, B.P.92, F-80300 Albert (Somme).
T: +33-3-22 75 16 42. Fax: +33-3-22 75 11 72.
Website:
http://www.waramps.ca/military/wwi/beaumont/home.html
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/legion/intro.htm
(Royal Canadian Legion of Newfoundland and Labrador)
Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, designated as a Canadian National Historic
Site on 9 April 1997.
Source : http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww1mem/beaumonthamel/bfacts
Info:
The
Battle of Le Hamel
"To the memory of the fallen of the
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
who
came from across the seas
at the
call of duty in the
FIRST WORLD WAR
and died at
Beaumont-Hamel
1916"
Source: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/books/newf/nfdec1
(chapter: "Memorial - Beaumont-Hamel)
Thiepval
(Somme) - 1 July
Commemorative
ceremony of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July, 1916, and during the whole summer
of 1916 (11,00 hrs.) at the Memorial to the Missing.
Info: Office
du Tourisme. 9 rue Gambetta, B.P.92, F-80300 Albert (Somme).
T: +33-3-22
75 16 42. Fax: +33-3-22 75 11 72.
Info: http://www.thiepval.org.uk/
Thiepval Memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
This memorial commemorates
the 1916 Anglo-French offensive on the Somme and it inscribed the names of over
73,000 men from UK and South Africa who have no known grave and who fell between
July 1916 and March 1918.
The Australian Missing is commemorated to Villers-Bretonneux
Memorial, the Canadians on the Vimy
Ridge Memorial, the Newfoundlanders at Beaumont-Hamel
and New Zelanders at Longueval.
Info:
http://www.silentcities.co.uk
Thiepval
(Somme) - 1 July
Commemorative
ceremony at the Ulster Tower (Irish Brigade).
Info: Office du Tourisme.
9 rue Gambetta, B.P.92, F-80300 Albert (Somme).
T: +33-3-22 75 16 42. Fax:
+33-3-22 75 11 72.
Info: Ulster Memorial Tower and Visitor Centre,
Route de St Pierre Divion, F-80300 Thiepval.
The Ulster Tower Memorial, situated near to Thiepval Wood, on the former
German front line, is a replica of Helen's Tower at Clandboye, near Belfast. This
memorial was erected to commemorate the bravery of the 36th
Ulster division during the attack of the Scwaben Redoubt the 1st July 1916.
Source: http://www.firstworldwar.com/today/ulstertower.htm
"Aux morts pour la Patrie 1914-1918"
Amiens military cemetery
Albert
(Somme) - 1 July
Commemorative
ceremony of the Battle of the Somme (18,00 hrs.).
Info: Office
du Tourisme. 9 rue Gambetta, B.P.92, F-80300 Albert (Somme).
T: +33-3-22
75 16 42. Fax: +33-3-22 75 11 72.
E-mail: ot.albert.ancre@wanadoo.fr
Remembrance sites of the Somme battlefield: | ||
| - Site of Albert - Site of Mametz - Site of Thiepval - Site of Le Hamel - Site of Longueval - Site of La Boiselle (Lochnagar Crater) - Site of High Wood |  | -
Site of Ovillers - Site of Pozières - Site of Beaumont-Hamel - Site of Serre - Site of Delville Wood - Site of Gueudecourt - Site of Courcelette - Site of Fricourt |
Source: Major & Mrs Holt's
Battlefield Guide to the Somme. Ed. Leo Cooper
Somme Battlefield Pipe Band - Albert, Somme. Website: http://sbpb2.ifrance.com/
Throughout
France - 11 November
Armistice
Day commemorating the end of WW I (11,00 hrs.).
Info: local Office
du Tourisme or Mairie (Town Hall).
Info:
http://www.silentcities.co.uk
Paris
- 11 November,
Wreath-laying
ceremony at the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe followed by a parade
of units of the French Army, Air Force and Navy along the Champs-Elysées (11,00
hrs.).
Info: Service du Tourisme. 127 avenue des Champs-Elysées, F-75008
Paris.
T: +33-1-49 52 53 54. Fax: +33-1-49 52 53 00.
Website
of Belgian National Remembrance Committe
