The Somme tourist board

The well-preserved trench system, the only survival of its kind in the Somme, gives a vivid impression of the events of the opening day of battle. Commemorating the disaster that befell the Newfoundland Regiment, the site preserves the Allied front and reserve lines and the German front line accross a grassy slope.

It has three battlefield cemeteries and monuments to the Highland Division (a fine statue of a Highlander) and the 29th Division.

Visitors can walk the duck-board lined trenches and climb up to the viewing-point, the caribou statue (emblem of Newfoundland which during the Great War was not yet part of the Dominion of Canada) on top of a mound with arrows pointing to battle sites all around …and to Newfoundland, 3,000 miles away to the west.

An Interpretative Centre shows the kind of Newfoudland household that these soldiers came from and explains the tragic sequence of events here , in the morning of 1 July 1916.