The Etinehem national cemetery
La cote 80
La nécropole nationale d’Etinehem. © ECPAD
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The Etinehem - or Cote 80 - national cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died for France during the various battles that took place in the Somme during the First World War. Created after the fighting of 1916, on the very site of the cemetery of the temporary hospital set up in Etinehem, it was developed in 1923 in order to bring together the bodies of soldiers exhumed from other temporary military cemeteries in the area.
Among the 955 soldiers buried here lies the body of Abbé (or Father) Thibaut. Chaplain of the 1st infantry regiment, he was one of the 150 chaplains who died between 1914 and 1918. Seriously wounded during the attack on Frégicourt on 26 September 1916, he died the following day at Etinehem's temporary hospital. The bodies of 49 British soldiers also lie within this remembrance site.
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Musée Somme 1916 à Albert
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