What is Chuignes?
[[File:Chuignes_(6).JPG|thumb|Saint-Sulpics church]] '''Chuignes''' is a [[Communes of France|commune]]. It is in the [[Regions of France|region]] [[Hauts-de-France]] in the [[Somme]] [[Departments of France|department]] in the north of [[France]]. == History == On August 23, 1918 a German marine canon weighing 600 tonnes, measuring 21 m and with a range of about 40 km was captured by Australian [[major general]] [[John Monash]]'s troops during [[World War I]]: the Chuignes [[Big Bertha]].<ref>Cyril Rayneau, ''Le Courrier picard'', 22 août 2014, p.3.</ref> [[File:Chuignes.JPG|thumb|left|[[Word War I]] memorial]] {{-}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Somme communes}} [[Category:Communes in Somme]]