Sailly-le-Sec

Sailly-le-Sec is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Sailly-le-Sec
Commune
The town hall and school in Sailly-le-Sec
Location of Sailly-le-Sec
Sailly-le-Sec
Sailly-le-Sec
Coordinates: 49°55′16″N 2°35′01″E
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentSomme
ArrondissementAmiens
CantonCorbie
IntercommunalityVal de Somme
Government
 • Mayor (2001–2008) Thierry Manten
Area
1
6.74 km2 (2.60 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
352
 • Density52/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
80694 /80800
Elevation27–112 m (89–367 ft)
(avg. 60 m or 200 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

The commune is situated some 13 miles (21 km) east of Amiens, by the banks of the Somme River, on the D233 road.

Population
Historical population of Sailly-le-Sec
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population177223214198268266353
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

History

21 April 1918 - Manfred Von Richthofen, The Red Baron, was finally shot down here.

On the night of August 8–9, 1918, as three Battalions of Doughboys from the 33rd U.S. Infantry Division were joining the Allied offensive during the Battle of Amiens, American war poet Lieut. John Allan Wyeth and Lieut. Thomas J. Cochrane were assigned to deliver sealed orders from Division HQ at Molliens-au-Bois to the Field Headquarters of all three Battalions engaged in the attack. The location of each Battalion was unknown, but they were believed to be along the northern bank of the Somme River, near the village of Sailly-le-Sec. Wyeth would later describe the mission in detail in his six interlinked Chipilly Ridge sonnets.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Omanson (2019), Before the Clangor of the Gun: The First World War Poetry of John Allan Wyeth, pages 36-49.


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