Attractions and Places To See around Humbercamps - Top 7

The Sheffield Memorial Park in Hébuterne pays tribute to the men of the 31st Division of the British Army who served in the Pals Battalion and fell in combat in this sector. The Pals Battalions were formed in the autumn of 1914 following recruitment campaigns launched by the War Office. Thousands of volunteers, brothers, cousins, neighbors, friends, and work colleagues enlisted at local recruiting offices at the same time. The regiments were thus composed of soldiers who knew each other very well and thus formed battalions of "friends," the Pals Battalions. During the fighting in the early days of the Battle of the Somme, these Sheffield Pals Battalions fought in the Hébuterne sector. Their objective was to advance east through the German lines and retake the fortified village of Serre.

The Euston Road Cemetery in Colincamps contains 1,293 graves of men killed mainly during the Battle of Serre on July 1, 1916, and the capture of Beaumont-Hamel on November 13, during the Battle of the Somme: 960 British, 4 Canadians, 26 Australians, 302 New Zealanders, and 1 Indian. During the Great War, Colincamps was a village less than 2 kilometers behind the British front lines and was regularly bombarded by German artillery. The village found itself on the front line in the spring of 1918 during the German counterattack "Michael," whose fighting on April 5, 1918, claimed many New Zealand casualties, who were buried here, defending Colincamps. Euston is a town in England, located in Suffolk. It is also the name of a railway station and an underground station in London, where there is also Euston Road. It's just another way for the British to evoke the country.

Luke Copse British Cemetery is a First World War military cemetery containing 72 British graves from the First World War, 28 of which are unidentified. This British cemetery (originally known as No. 19 V Corps Cemetery) lies on the former front line of July 1916. It takes its name from one of the four copses that stood close to the front line, between Serre and Hébuterne. The graves are those of casualties of the 31st and 3rd Divisions, who died during the attacks of July 1 and November 13, 1916.

Many smaller British memorial sites near the battlefields are lovingly cared for here. . Quiet places of reminder

At the beginning of the 18th century, the flow of the Crinchon (river of about twenty kilometers which flows between Bailleulmont and Saint-Nicolas before flowing into the Scarpe) is weak, irregular and its waters are of poor quality. The city of Arras needs healthy and abundant water for the inhabitants and for the drinking troughs of the cavalry barracks. In 1723, at his request, the springs that gush out in Brétencourt, a hamlet of Rivière, were collected in a reservoir, it is a vast rectangular basin surrounded by brick walls now called "Carré des sources". Its dimensions: 33 m long, 11 m wide and 8 m deep. The works were carried out by the Military Engineering on the orders of the king, who financed them, as recalled by a sandstone sealed in a wall: "In the year 1723, under the reign of Louis XV, the sources of the Crinchon were sought and enclosed in this basin at the expense of the king" Le Carré des sources delivers 64 liters per second of water that is extremely fresh and remarkably clear. The stream thus formed crosses the park of the castle and joins the initial bed of the Crinchon, after a course of 500 m. The flow being capricious, the system was completed by the digging of a few artesian wells, from the end of the 18th century.

Château de Bavincourt is a castle located in the commune of Bavincourt, in the Pas-de-Calais department of France. An old manor house used to stand on the site of the present castle and its motte was still there during the construction of the latter; however, not much is known about it. The current castle was built by François Deslions, nephew of Jean-Louis Deslions, canon and dean of Saint-Omer, who had inherited the lands of Bavincourt.

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An impressive place, furrowed earth, craters and memorial stones: this is where the British advance against the German position in Serre began in 1916.