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It is located on the Route Villiers-Bretonneux (D 23), between the towns of Fouilloy and Villers-Bretonneux, in the Somme département, France. The memorial lists 10,773 names of soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force with no known grave who were killed between 1916, when Australian forces arrived in France and Belgium, and the end of the war.
The other Commonwealth nations have national memorials dedicated to their missing who fell on the Western Front: the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial to the forces of India; the Vimy Memorial to the forces of Canada and the Beaumont-Hamel Memorial to the forces of Newfoundland; the Villers-Brettonneux Memorial to the forces of Australia; and the ...
American military cemetery and memorial: Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial; American military cemetery and memorial: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial; Australian national memorial: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial and Commonwealth military cemetery: Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery; Canadian national memorial: Vimy Memorial
The Villers-Bretonneux memorial was badly damaged in the course of the 1939–1945 War and file WO 219/922 held at The National Archives in Kew gives information on the damage sustained. Villers-Bretonneux is a sacred place for Australians and marks one of the seminal moments when the German's eventual defeat was started.
Located behind the Villers-Bretonneux memorial, and built partially underground and with a turf roof, [12] the one thousand square metre centre is designed to be "subservient" to the war memorial and has been described by one of the architects, Joe Agius, as "almost an anti-building, connected to the monument from an abstract and geometric ...
Panel 88 Roll of Honour, AWM Villers-Bretonneux including the name of Austn soldier & RL player Harold Corbett. Source I createf this work entirely by myself Previously published: Not previously Date 2012-April-17 Author Sticks66. Permission (Reusing this file) See below.
Hangard Wood, to the south of Villers-Bretonneux, was the location of a number of battles during the First World War, from April to August 1918.Hangard itself had been defended by the 18th Division during the German spring offensive while the area of the cemetery itself was held by the Germans.
Villers-Bretonneux - where Australian and British forces defended against a German invasion, as well as the follow-up attack only three weeks later. Villers-Bretonneux was a desirable point of advantage for both sides of the battle because it was less than 20km from the city of Amiens , a major British transport hub, where if the Germans ...