The Tank Corps Memorial is located near Pozières, in the Somme department of France. The location was chosen because it was near this spot that tanks were first used in combat, when they were deployed by the British Army at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme, on 15th September 1916.

The Ulster Memorial Tower, located about one kilometre northwest of Thiepval, in the Somme department of France, is Northern Ireland's National War Memorial. It commemorates all Ulstermen who served in the First World War, and in particular, the officers and men of the 36th (Ulster) Division, with the memorial’s location serving as a permanent reminder of that unit’s heroic exploits on the opening day of the Battle 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.

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