Arras Memorial and Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France
Video of this memorial and cemetery. CWGC says about this site ARRAS MEMORIAL commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period were the Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in the spring of 1918. Canadian and Australian servicemen killed in these operations are commemorated by memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bretonneux. A separate memorial remembers those killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. The adjacent ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL commemorates more than 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave. During the Second World War, Arras was occupied by United Kingdom forces headquarters until the town was evacuated on 23 May 1940. Arras then remained in German hands until retaken by Commonwealth and Free French forces on 1 September 1944. The 1939-1945 War burials number 8 and comprise 3 soldiers and 4 airmen from the United Kingdom and 1 entirely unidentified casualty. Located between the 2 special memorials of the 1914-1918 War is the special memorial commemorating an officer of the United States Army Air Force, who died during the 1939-1945 War. This special memorial, is inscribed with the words Believed to be buried in this cemetery. In addition, there are 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German. Both cemetery and memorials were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with sculpture by Sir William Reid Dick. We shall remember them.
The Arras Memorial & the Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery
The Arras Memorial & the Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery are located on the western edge of the city of Arras.
The cemetery is the final resting place of 2,650 Commonwealth soldiers while the memorial commemorates over 35,000 who fell in the Arrass area in 1916-18 but have no known grave.
Like many Commonwealth War Grave Commision cemeteries, there are a small number of burials from non-Commonwealth countries, mainly Germany.
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Places to see in ( Arras - France ) Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery
Places to see in ( Arras - France ) Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery
Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery is in the western part of the town of Arras in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle, near the Citadel, approximately 2 Kms due west of the railway station. The French handed over Arras to Commonwealth forces in the spring of 1916 and the system of tunnels upon which the town is built were used and developed in preparation for the major offensive planned for April 1917.
The Commonwealth section of the FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY was begun in March 1916, behind the French military cemetery established earlier. It continued to be used by field ambulances and fighting units until November 1918. The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields and from two smaller cemeteries in the vicinity. The cemetery contains over 2,650 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 10 of which are unidentified. The graves in the French military cemetery were removed after the war to other burial grounds and the land they had occupied was used for the construction of the Arras Memorial and Arras Flying Services Memorial.
The adjacent ARRAS MEMORIAL commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period were the Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in the spring of 1918. Canadian and Australian servicemen killed in these operations are commemorated by memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bretonneux. A separate memorial remembers those killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.
The adjacent ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL commemorates more than 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave. During the Second World War, Arras was occupied by United Kingdom forces headquarters until the town was evacuated on 23 May 1940. Arras then remained in German hands until retaken by Commonwealth and Free French forces on 1 September 1944. The 1939-1945 War burials number 8 and comprise 3 soldiers and 4 airmen from the United Kingdom and 1 entirely unidentified casualty.
Located between the 2 special memorials of the 1914-1918 War is the special memorial commemorating an officer of the United States Army Air Force, who died during the 1939-1945 War. This special memorial, is inscribed with the words Believed to be buried in this cemetery. In addition, there are 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German. Both cemetery and memorials were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with sculpture by Sir William Reid Dick.
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Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery and Arras Flying Services Memorial
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Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery & Arras Memorial
A selection of scenes from the Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery and Arras Memorial. It is a Commonwealth War Grave Commission cemetery for the dead who fell in the First World War around Arras.
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Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery and Mur des Fusillés
Video tour of Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery and Mur des Fusillés which is a short walk behind the Citadel. Both located in Arras, France.
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N 50 17.218, E 2 45.639
Mur des Fusillés
This monument marks 218 patriots from various towns and Resistance Groups who were shot in the ditches of the citadel by the German occupiers between 1941 and 1944.
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N 50 16.933, E 2 45.426
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Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery
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Marcoing British Cemetery, near Cambrai, France
Video of the Marcoing Commonwealth War Graves cemetery. CWGC say Marcoing British Cemetery was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves (almost all of November 1917 or September-October 1918) from RUMILLY GERMAN CEMETERY and from the local battlefields.
There are now nearly 400, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over half are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 19 soldiers from the United Kingdom, four from Canada and one from New Zealand, known or believed to be buried among them.
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Louez British Military Cemetery, Near Arras, France
Video of this small cemetery near Arras - CWGC say The cemetery was begun by French troops and taken over by the 51st (Highland) Division as a front-line cemetery in March 1916. The 60th (London) Division followed during their short stay in France in the summer of 1916 and the last graves (except two) are those of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, who buried here from November 1916 to March 1917. The French graves were later removed. Louez Military Cemetery now contains 204 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, and two German war graves. The cemetery as designed by G H Goldsmith.. We shall remember them.
World War One Cemetary at Warlincourt near Arras, France
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Dury Canadian Battlefield Memorial, Arras, France
Videof of this WW1 memorial in northern France. Wiki says
The Dury Memorial is a World War I Canadian war memorial that commemorates the actions of the Canadian Corps in the Second Battle of Arras, particularly their breakthrough at the Drocourt-Quéant Line switch of the Hindenburg Line just south of the town of Dury. The Drocourt-Quéant Line was a main position in the German Army's defensive position in the area. The action took place on 2 and 3 September 1918 during a period known as the Hundred Days Offensive or Canada's Hundred Days. Particularly noteworthy for such a brief battle was that seven Canadians earned a Victoria Cross on September 2 during the battle.
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CWGC Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz, France
The Devonshire Cemetery near Mamtez, France is the final resting place for over 170 men killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916.
A special memorial headstone at the entrance to the cemetery records the message on a wooden cross left on this cemetery in 1916: 'The Devonshires Held This Trench, The Devonshires Hold It Still.'
This small cemetery follows the trench from which the Devonshires were ordered to advance on 1st July 1916. Many died within a few feet of the trench, killed by machine gun fire from across the valley. They did not stand a chance as they had to advance down into a wide valley. The fallen Devonshires were buried in the trench from which they had advanced, hence the memorial message.
Uniquely, all 170 men buried in this cemetery were from the Devonshires and all died on 1st July 1916. I did not see another cemetery with such a history in the Somme or Ieper area.
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