This municipality includes the villages of Beaumont, Gare de Hamel and Beaucourt. These villages were located immediately behind the German lines. Newfoundland was at the time of the war, a British colony and as such, like all other countries of the Empire had raised an army of volunteers.
July 1, 1916, at 9 am, the men of the Newfoundland Regiment, barely out of their trenches, found themselves under fire from German machine guns. Half an hour later, they were only 68 valid. All officers were killed or wounded. In proportion to the numbers involved, this action was one of the deadliest of the Somme offensive.
A Beaumont- Hamel, the Newfoundland memorial gives a moving and realistic battles with a beautifully preserved trench system. Due to the landscape architect Rudolph Cochius The park covers 30 hectares and was inaugurated in 1925.
At the entrance, the monument to the 29th Division to which belonged the Newfoundland Regiment. A path leads to the viewpoint at the top of the Caribou mound, so called because it is crowned with a bronze caribou statue, symbol of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the work of English sculptor Basil Gotto, pointing towards the enemy, hence an overall view of the entire battlefield allows understanding the "system" of the trenches.
Three bronze plates sealed at the base of the mound are national memorial to the missing office with the names of 820 members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, and the Merchant Marine who gave their lives during the first World War and who have no known grave.
A single tree escaped the devastation of the place : the skeleton of the "tree of danger", so named because it is located at a particularly exposed observation point. The first German line going deep in the park, near the statue of the Scotsman in a kilt of the 51st Highland Division which captured the enemy position on November 13, 1916. A complete interpretation center visit. He explains the social situation of Newfoundland in the early 20th century and traces the Royal Newfoundland Regiment history since its creation in 1914 until the end of the war.
