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The Pipers Memorial in Longueval is a special tribute to all pipers who died during the First World War, regardless of their regiment or origin. It was unveiled on 20 July 2002 and stands in the village square, just off the Rue de Bazentin. The bronze statue, designed by Andy De Comyn, shows a piper in full uniform climbing out of a trench playing—a powerful symbol of courage and moral support for troops under fire. Plaques around the plinth list the regiments that lost pipers, and the memorial also remembers heroes such as Piper James Richardson VC, who led his battalion into the attack with his music and was later killed trying to retrieve his bagpipes. It is a rare monument that honours not only military valour but also cultural identity and tradition. A place where music and memory come together in stone and bronze.

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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.

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The 41st Division memorial sits in Flers in commemoration of their liberation of the village. This memorial, topped with a bronze battle dressed soldier, has been made particularly famous in its depiction as the photo on the cover of Rose Coombs' quintessential battlefield tour guide Before Endeavours Fade. The statue by Albert Toft is the same figure used at the Royal London Fusiliers Monument in London and Oldham war memorial

The Piper's Memorial pays tribute to the pipers who fell during the Great War, regardless of nationality or unit. Unveiled in 2002, this 3-meter-high statue depicts one of these musicians, straddling the parapet of his trench, playing his instrument to encourage the soldiers heading into the assault.

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the largest French necropolis in the Somme (8,566 soldiers)

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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.

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The Australian War Cemetery covers an area of 459 m2 with 88 graves from the First World War. The cemetery was opened in March 1917 by the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station and was in use until June 1917. In April and May 1918, 23 German graves were added.

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Bapaume was one of the war objectives in the Battle of the Somme. In 1916, Bapaume was one of the towns considered by the Allies as strategic objectives in the Battle of the Somme. Bapaume was occupied by the Germans on 26 September 1914 and then by the British on 17 March 1917. The town hall was destroyed on 25 March by a delayed action mine left by the Germans, killing 24 people, including Australian soldiers and two French MPs. On 24 March 1918, the Germans retook the town. In 1918, the Second Battle of Bapaume, from 21 August to 3 September, was part of the second phase of the Battle of Amiens, the British and Commonwealth attack that marked the turning point in the First World War on the Western Front and the beginning of the Allies' Hundred Days Offensive. Improved armoured support and artillery bombardments weakened once impregnable positions and helped Allied troops to blow holes in trenches. On 29 August, after heavy fighting, the New Zealand Division occupied Bapaume, having broken through the very strong trench system at Le Transloy-Loupart with the British 5th Infantry Division and taken many other strong points around the border.

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