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Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, located 9 km north of Albert, in the Somme department of France, pays special tribute to the role of the Newfoundland Regiment in the Battle of the Somme and the heavy losses it suffered. It also commemorates those Newfoundlanders who fell in battle and who have no known grave.

Matthew Camilleri
Apr 114 min read


Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, near Thiepval, in the Somme department of France, commemorates by name over 72,000 British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme and have no known grave.

Matthew Camilleri
Mar 144 min read


Villers-Bretonneux Australian National Memorial
The Australian National Memorial, located at Villers-Bretonneux, in the Somme department of France, is the main memorial to Australian military personnel killed on the Western Front during the First World War, especially those who have no known grave.

Matthew Camilleri
Feb 213 min read


'Six VCs before Breakfast'
6 men from the 1st Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, were awarded the Victoria Cross following the Gallipoli Landings on 25th April 1915.

Matthew Camilleri
Oct 26, 202412 min read


The Sinking of HMS Louvain
The sinking of HMS Louvain in the Aegean Sea on 20th January 1918 led to the deaths of 73 Maltese naval ratings.

Matthew Camilleri
Jan 6, 20246 min read


The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
In 1916, David Railton, an army chaplain, had an idea that was to transform the way the British people remembered their war dead.

Matthew Camilleri
Nov 10, 202312 min read


Malta-Gallipoli Connections
Malta's crucial role during the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of WWI.

Matthew Camilleri
Apr 1, 20239 min read


The Zeebrugge Raid
On 23rd April 1918, the Royal Navy carried out a daring amphibious raid on the German-held port of Zeebrugge, in Belgium.

Matthew Camilleri
Mar 18, 202310 min read
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