Attractions and Places To See around Léchelle - Top 20

French politician, MP and then resistance fighter, born on November 6, 1890 in Bapaume, he became mayor of the town in 1929. In 1934, he was elected general councilor of Pas-de-Calais. In 1936, he ran in the legislative elections and was elected in the second round. He was arrested in 1943 by the Nazis as he left the prefecture, and deported to the Gross-Rosen camp where he died on November 27, 1944. Since 1948, a monument showing him at the time of his arrest honors his memory. At the Town Hall there is an urn with soil from Gross-Rosen as well as a painting of him.

Flers was captured on 15 September 1916 by the 41st British Division and the New Zealand Division during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, which was the first significant combat action in the world to showcase tank warfare. The village was captured by the Germans during their 1918 Spring Offensive, but was recaptured by the 10th West Yorks and 6th Dorsets of the 17th British Division by the end of August 1918. The cemetery contains a total of 776 graves, including 493 from the United Kingdom, 155 from Australia, and 122 from New Zealand. 296 graves are unmarked. Special memorials are dedicated to 15 soldiers (8 from Australia, 5 from the United Kingdom, and 2 from New Zealand) believed to be buried among the unknown.

This is lock number 10 on the Canal du Nord and is known as Allaines. It is situated on the north side of the village of Allaines in the Somme department 80. The 19 locks on this canal are between 6 and 7 metres deep and therefore have stepped bollards built into the lock walls. The lower gates are of the guillotine type rather than the usual double swing gates. The locks are operated by calling a control centre on the VHF. The VHF channels alternate between 18 and 22 for each alternative lock. Each lock has a modern control tower and these were all originally manned but are now empty apart from the locks which act as control centres. Many of the locks have a lock house next to them. In addition, many of them were built with huge side ponds which are used during lock operations to save half a lock's worth of water at each bend. These side ponds are still in use today.

The national necropolis of Moislains, known as the Charentais cemetery, gathers the remains of soldiers who fell for France during the fighting that took place around this village on 28 August 1914. This national cemetery, created at the end of these clashes, was built successively in 1923-1924 and in 1944. This necropolis brings together 465 bodies, including the French, 99 in individual graves and 366 in an ossuary. Since 1924, this necropolis has housed a memorial in honour of the memory of these fighters who came mainly from Angoulême and Bergerac. At the foot of this monument, an oak coffin from Puy-de-Nelle (commune of Charente) was placed in 1960. Made by Gaston Rofidal, former non-commissioned officer in the 307th Infantry Regiment (RI) during the war, this chest symbolically contains various soil samples taken from the communes of Charente. Because it suffered from the vagaries of time, it was replaced in 2014.

The Monument aux Morts in Barastre is a war memorial commemorating the victims of the First World War. The monument is located on the Place de la Mairie in Barastre, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department, located in the Hauts-de-France region in north-eastern France1. The monument was erected in 1922 and lists the names of the victims of the town who died during the war.

A farming village located 30 km south-east of Arras on the D20. The entire commune was destroyed during the First World War. History During the First World War, the village was occupied by British troops in March 1917, before being lost to the Germans a year later. The village was retaken on 5 September after an advance by the British 42nd Division (East Lancashire). The cemetery contains the graves of almost 10 British soldiers (one of whom was buried by the Germans in 1916). The extension to the cemetery contains the graves of 284 German soldiers, 46 French, 39 British, four New Zealanders and one Australian. The commune was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1920.

French politician, MP and then resistance fighter, born on November 6, 1890 in Bapaume, he became mayor of the city in 1929, in 1934, he was elected general councilor of Pas-de-Calais. In 1936, he ran in the legislative elections and was elected in the second round. He was arrested in 1943 by the Nazis when he left the prefecture, and deported to the Gross-Rosen camp where he died on November 27, 1944. Since 1948, a monument showing him at the time of his arrest honors his memory. At the Town Hall there is an urn with soil from Gross-Rosen as well as a painting representing him.