Longueval

Longueval is located {{convert|38|km|abbr=on}} northwest of Amiens on the D919 road, at the junction with the D8.

Longueval is found in the north-east of the département, almost equidistant to the surrounding towns of Péronne (to the east), Albert (west) and Bapaume (north).

{{Historical populations

| 1968|307

| 1975|267

| 1982|278

| 1990|237

| 1999|248

| 2007|268

| 2012|280

| 2017|271

| source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-80490#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

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{{Blazon-arms

| img1 = Blason fam fr Longueval.svg

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| text = The coat of arms of the community were derived from the House of Longueval, Counts of Buquoy (later Bucquoy),[https://armorialdefrance.fr/page_blason.php?ville=3257 armorialdefrance.fr]. and are blazoned as:

Bendy of six vair and gules.

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File:Daily Mail Postcard - The Main Street, Longueval.jpg

The village was almost completely destroyed during World War I.

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery is located outside Longueval, on the road to Bazentin.[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/61400/CATERPILLAR%20VALLEY%20CEMETERY,%20LONGUEVAL Caterpillar Valley Cemetery at CWGC website] The cemetery also contains a Memorial to the Missing from New Zealand, recording the names of 1272 men lost in 1916.{{cite book |last= McGibbon |first= Ian |title= New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials of the Western Front |year= 2001|publisher= Oxford University Press |location= Auckland |pages= 58, 83 }} The body for the New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was taken from here.

South of Longueval is the Longueval Road Cemetery. In the centre of the village is the Pipers' Memorial, built to commemorate bagpipers who fought in the First World War. Longueval was chosen because it was retaken by the 9th (Scottish) Division in July 1916. To the east of the village is the South African War Memorial Delville Wood.

On 21 October 2010, the Footballers' Battalions Memorial was unveiled at Longueval, near Delville Wood, to commemorate those from the Footballers' Battalions who had fought and died in the Great War.{{Cite web |url=http://origin-www.football-league.co.uk/footballleaguenews/20101022/league-honours-war-dead_2293334_2192753 |title=League Honours War Dead |publisher=The Football League Official Site |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143036/http://origin-www.football-league.co.uk/footballleaguenews/20101022/league-honours-war-dead_2293334_2192753 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=dead |accessdate=10 January 2011}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/8079101/Footballers-Battalions-remembered-on-Somme-battlefield.html|title=Footballers' Battalion remembered on Somme battlefield – Telegraph|publisher=Henry Winter, The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=21 October 2010}}

• Delville Wood
• Communes of the Somme department

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• {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080201112722/http://terresdememoire.com/FR/plus/1.html 360° Longueval Museum]
• {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080120140807/http://www.terresdememoire.com/FR/sites/cemetery_longueval.html 360° Longueval Military cemetery]

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Longueval

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