Sailly-le-Sec

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Sailly-le-Sec
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The town hall and school in Sailly-le-Sec
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Location of Sailly-le-Sec
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Sailly-le-Sec
Coordinates: 49°55′16″N2°35′01″E / 49.9211°N 2.5836°E / 49.9211; 2.5836
Country France
Region Hauts-de-France
Department Somme
Arrondissement Amiens
Canton Corbie
Intercommunality Val de Somme
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Catherine Candelier [1]
Area
1
6.74 km2 (2.60 sq mi)
Population
 (2021) [2]
350
  Density52/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+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.

Sailly-le-Sec (French pronunciation: [sajisɛk] ; Picard : Sailly-Sé) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Geography

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

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 223    
1975 214−0.59%
1982 198−1.10%
1990 268+3.86%
1999 266−0.08%
2007 365+4.03%
2012 343−1.24%
2017 352+0.52%
Source: INSEE [3]

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 . [4]

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References

  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  4. Omanson (2019), Before the Clangor of the Gun: The First World War Poetry of John Allan Wyeth, pages 36-49.