Bouchavesnes-Bergen

Bouchavesnes-Bergen is a common French, located in the department of the Somme and the area Picardy.

Geography

Administration

Demography

History

1849 : As in all the communes of France, the major population masculine could, for the first time, outward journey to vote thanks to the introduction of the Vote for all.

Here the distribution (of number) of some patronyms of the voters: (seized nonexhaustive!)

Places and monuments

A tomb in full field, right before the vault of Rancourt and Bouchavesnes. Y is buried the soldier Maurice Galle, of 106e R.I., is died there on September 25th, 1916. Wounded mortally in the belly in German sector, he dies at the 21 years age. Carried initially disappeared, he will be declared died only when the British take again the sector and discover its body in March 1917. Only sons, his/her parents, originating in Creil buy the ground with the commune of Bouchavesnes to make there build a tomb in the honor of their son, Maurice. The monument, which comprises also the names of the soldiers of Bouchavesnes, died in the combat, is inaugurated in 1922. The tomb, surmounted of a large cross, always exists. It is located at rural crossroads of the molten mill and that of the paradise of the cows, opposite D 149 coming from Cléry on Somme.

Source: Stephan AUDOUIN-ROUZEAU and Nathalie GARREAU-DEMILLY, Maurice Galle: life of a soldier, mourning of a family (1914-1929), editions MEMO, 1998.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Sum
One century (1851-1954) of rural migration in the Sum

External bonds

Bouchavesnes-Bergen on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bouchavesnes-Bergen on the site of INSEE
Bouchavesnes-Bergen on the site of Quid
Localization of Bouchavesnes-Bergen on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Bouchavesnes-Bergen on Mapquest

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