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A view of Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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A view of Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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A view of Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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A view of Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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A view of Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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The Newfoundland Park at Beaumont Hamel (Somme) is
arguably one of the most important battlefield sites along the old
Western Front. It is a vast area of preserved trenches, where men of the
29th Division fought on 1st July 1916, among them the Newfoundland
Regiment who suffered over 700 casualties in the attack that day. |
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“Thiepval Memorial to the Missing”
contains the names of 73,357 men whose bodies were never found and have
no known grave. |