Beaumont-Hamel

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{{Infobox French commune

|name = Beaumont-Hamel

|commune status = Commune

|image = Beaumont 4.JPG

|caption = The monument to the dead, in Beaumont-Hamel

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Savigny-sur-Braye (Loir-et-Cher).svg

|arrondissement = Péronne

|canton = Albert

|INSEE = 80069

|postal code = 80300

|mayor = Agnes Briet-Lavaquerie{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=2 December 2020|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = CC du Pays du Coquelicot

|coordinates = {{coord|50.084|2.6572|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 75

|elevation min m = 70

|elevation max m = 148

|area km2 = 8.31

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

}}

File:Beaumont Hamel Dedication Ceremony to Newfoundland Regiment.jpg

Beaumont-Hamel ({{IPA|fr|bomɔ̃ amɛl}}) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

File:Hawthorn Ridge (1 July 1916).png (red – British front line, blue – German fortifications).]]

During the First World War, Beaumont-Hamel was close to the front line, near many attacks, especially during the Battle of the Somme, one of the largest allied offensives of the war.

On 1 July 1916, the First Day of the Somme, the 29th Division assaulted the German front line in an attempt to capture the village as part of the Somme Offensive. Included in this division was the Newfoundland Regiment. Newfoundland commemorates this event as Memorial Day on 1 July each year.

Its capture by the 51st (Highland) Division on 18 November 1916 marked the end of the Battle of the Somme. Fought over for many years, by 1918, the village had been almost totally destroyed.

The banks of white chalk at Beaumont-Hamel led to a sector of British trenches being nicknamed "White City".{{cite web|last1=Baker|first1=John|title=White City', located near Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme, 1916. {{!}} British Army First World War|url=http://www.army.mod.uk/firstworldwarresources/archives/1555/white-city-located-near-beaumont-hamel-on-the-somme-1916|website=www.army.mod.uk|access-date=26 November 2016|date=June 5, 2014}} To the west of the village was Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt, one of the sites of the mines exploded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

File:Beaumont-Hamel - General view of the battlefield.jpg

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