By 10 April 1917, when the Battle of Arras had been in progress for one day, Australian soldiers left to attack the German lines at Bullecourt. A second offensive was launched on 3 May. The statue of the Digger...
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Overhanging the Artois plain, the land was granted for all time by the French nation to the people of Canada and is maintained by the Canadian Veterans Affairs. The site includes the Vimy Monument, preserved fr...
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Belgium, Belgian Military Square at the Communal Cemetery at Calais, Av Antoine de St Exupéry - Calais, , Belgium was almost entirely occupied by the German Army in 1914. Only the area, between Ypres and Nieup...
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China, St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery, St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery – RD 940, , From 1916 onwards, the British Army recruited Chinese peasants for logistical tasks in its camps in France. At t...
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Germany, German military cemetery at Saint-Laurent-Blangy, Saint-Laurent-Blangy - RD 919, , After the fighting, the German military cemeteries were grouped into huge necropolises,, such as the one at Saint-Laur...
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Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak Military Cemetery and the “Nazdar” Company Memorial, Neuvile Saint-Vaast – D937 towards Souchez, , The memorial pays tribute to Czechoslovak emigrants in Paris who enlisted in...
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Neuville-Saint-Vaast, the largest German war cemetery in France, is the final resting place for 44,833 German soldiers of which 8,040 were never identified and buried in a common grave....
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Poland, Polish Memorial, Neuvile Saint -Vaast – RD 937 towards Souchez, , In 1914, the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires divided Polish territory among themselves. When war broke out, Polish emigra...
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India, Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial,, Intersection of the D947 and the D171, Richebourg l’Avoué, , The first Indian troops in the Imperial British Army arrived in France in October 1914. They were first st...
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New-Zealand, New-Zealand Memorial – Grévillers British Cemetery, Grévillers – RD 29, , This memorial was erected in memory of the New Zealand soldiers reported missing, during the “100-Day Offensive” ...
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France, , National necropolis of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, , Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Immediately after the conflict, the French State created what was to be the largest, national necropolis on the plateau of Notre D...
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The new Republic of Portugal sent around 56,000 soldiers to join the Allied Armies in 1917. They suffered the full brunt of the offensive launched by the German Army in April 1918 in the Lys river valley....
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Rendered tragically famous by WWI, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette is the largest French military cemetery. Visit the Roman-Byzantine Chapel and the Lantern Tower in the middle of the cemetery as well as the Ring of Reme...
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Wimereux Communal Cemetery, , Amongst the soldiers buried in Wimereux is Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae the author of «In Flanders Fields» (1915) on whose Memorial Seat you can read an excerpt of the...
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