Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery and Memorial

Fouilloy, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France

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Rising from the road to a plateau overlooking Amiens, the Somme Valley and between the villages of Villers-Bretonneux and Fouilloy in France is Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery and the Australian National Memorial. Buried here are more than 2,100 servicemen of the First World War, of whom more than 600 remain unidentified. Also buried here are two New Zealand airmen from the Second World War. Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery was made after the Armistice by bringing together graves from the surrounding battlefields and nearby burial grounds. Around two-thirds of those buried died in 1918, more than 400 in the Battle of Amiens. Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other burial grounds in the area and from the battlefields. Plots I to XX were completed by 1920 and contain mostly Australian graves, almost all from the period March to August 1918. Plots IIIA, VIA, XIIIA and XVIA, and Rows in other Plots lettered AA, were completed by 1925, and contain a much larger proportion of unidentified graves brought from a wider area. Later, 444 graves were brought in from Dury Hospital Military Cemetery. There are now more than 2,100 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 608 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to 15 buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not be found on concentration. The cemetery also contains the graves of two New Zealand airmen of the Second World War. Within the cemetery stands the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, the Australian national memorial erected to commemorate all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War, to their dead, and especially to name more than 10,000 of those of the dead whose graves are not known. The Australian servicemen named on the memorial died in the battlefields of the Somme, Arras, the German advance of 1918 and the Advance to Victory. The memorial was unveiled by King George VI on 22 July 1938. The cemetery and the memorial were both designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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