Overseas American military cemetery

Somme American Cemetery

France

Location

X6P7+6G Bony, France

The map point uses the coordinates the American Battle Monuments Commission publishes for this cemetery. Get directions · View on OpenStreetMap

Visiting

Address: X6P7+6G Bony, France
Phone: +33 (0)3 23 66 87 20
Visiting hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.
Accessibility: Not yet verified — call the cemetery to ask about parking and paths.
Plan your visit: Visiting information from the American Battle Monuments Commission
Official page: abmc.gov

Details are as published by the American Battle Monuments Commission, checked November 11, 2026. Hours change for holidays, weather and ceremonies.

Admission and hours, from the American Battle Monuments Commission

Business Hours

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Please note, admission to the cemetery ends at 4:45 p.m., 15 minutes before closing time.
Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.

When open, a staff member is on duty in the visitor building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites.
Admission is FREE and does not require booking in advance.

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Pay your respects

Visitors to veterans’ graves sometimes leave a coin on the headstone to show that someone came. You can leave a symbolic coin here. No money is involved, and nothing about you is published. About the custom, and what each coin is said to mean.

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About this cemetery

Reproduced from the American Battle Monuments Commission’s own description of this cemetery, retrieved November 11, 2026. This is the agency’s text, unedited; it is not independent research by this site.

The World War I Somme American Cemetery and Memorial in France is sited on a gentle slope typical of the open, rolling Picardie countryside.

The 14.3-acre cemetery contains the graves of more than 1,800 of our military dead. Most lost their lives while serving in American units attached to British armies or in operations near Cantigny. The headstones, set in regular rows, are separated into four plots by paths that intersect at the flagpole near the top of the slope. The longer axis leads to the chapel at the eastern end of the cemetery.

A massive bronze door surmounted by an American eagle leads into the chapel, whose outer walls contain sculptured pieces of military equipment. Once inside, light from a cross-shaped crystal window above the marble altar bathes the subdued interior with light. The walls bear the names of almost 350 of the missing. Rosettes mark the names of soldiers listed on the Walls of the Missing that have since been recovered and identified.

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Sources

American Battle Monuments Commission. Cemeteries and memorials. U.S. government work (public domain). Retrieved November 11, 2026. Used for: name, location and contact details, and the hours and description where shown.
American Battle Monuments Commission. Somme American Cemetery (official page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.

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