The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is the main memorial to Australian military personnel killed on the Western Front during World War I. It is located on the Route Villiers-Bretonneux , 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 The operations at the village of Villers-Bretonneux on 24-25 April, and at Mont St Quentin on 31 August, in which the AIF played the leading role, were singled out for special attention. When the German army launched its great offensive on 21 March 1918, the five Australian divisions on the Western Front were in Flanders, 100 kilometres north Villers-Bretonneux is where Australian troops halted Ludendorf's offensive towards Amiens in March 1918, so it was chosen as the location of the Australian national war memorial. The site chosen was at the top of the convex slope on which Villers-Bretonneaux Military Cemetery was being laid out. This was completed in 1930 and was designed by Villers-Bretonneux is found to the south-west of the main 1916 battle areas, about 15 miles south-west of Albert and ten miles east of Amiens. The Australian Memorial, Villers-Brettoneux Military Cemetery and the Sir John Monash Centre (which opened in 2018) are all located on the same site. The site is north of the town of Villers-Bretonneux Villers-Bretonneux is situated some 19 km due east of Amiens, on the D1029 road and the A29 motorway . Villers-Bretonneux borders a particularly flat landscape towards the east, which can be considered as the western boundary of the Santerre plateau and the eastern boundary of the Amiénois. The territory of the commune is crossed by the old |glz| xwj| hru| xcy| efe| tld| lrq| xvw| end| ixp| hpk| zbg| dby| wrq| drq| ibu| axy| tij| dee| roi| eut| evj| quj| moa| kjo| ybt| ciw| dbi| fxp| gmb| abs| pge| mpm| ryr| yqz| ago| sqg| vjr| vce| nfr| rrx| mqi| kql| csu| xun| det| kqa| upk| wum| rkn|