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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.
Australian national memorial: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial and Commonwealth military cemetery: Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery Canadian national memorial: Vimy Memorial Commonwealth memorials: Beaumont Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial & 29th Division Memorial , Commonwealth memorial park: Beaumont Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial Park and ...
The Sir John Monash Centre is a museum and interpretive centre that commemorates Australian servicemen and women who served on the Western Front during the First World War. The centre, located near the village of Villers-Bretonneux (Somme) in northern France, is set behind the Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial and within the ...
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 ...
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.
Villers-Bretonneux Somme: The area around this village saw much fighting between April and August 1918, being strategically placed in relation to the German Army's access to Amiens. Villers-Bretonneux had seen a clash on 27 November 1870 between the French and Prussian armies. The war memorial of Villers-Bretonneux features a statue of a woman ...
The memorial park is located approximately 200 metres (660 ft) east of the V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, on the same road in the direction of the village of Fromelles in France. It lies at the point where the German lines crossed the road, and has several surviving battlefield fortifications.
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