Monuments and Memorials in French Flanders and Artois, France

The memorial cross, in the form of a cross in the cathedral of York Minster, England, marks the place where the 12th Division was in action in April 1917.

A similar memorial to the 12th Division is located at Malassie Farm, Epehy (division took the village in September 1918)

The Cité Bonjean New Zealand Memorial commemorates 47 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who fell in action in the area of Armentières and who have no known grave. This is one of seven such memorials to Missing New Zealand Forces on the Western Front.

A Demarcation Stone on the N39, a few kilometres east of Arras, marks the furthest westerly point in the line to which the German Army advanced in its spring offensive of 1918. The German advance of 1918 was held here by the British Army.

The Cemetery was begun by the Indian Corps (and in particular by the 2nd Leicesters) in November, 1914, and it was used continuously by Field Ambulances and fighting units until March, 1918. It passed into German hands in April, 1918 and after its recapture a few further burials were made in Plot IV in September and October. The grave of one Officer of the London Regiment was brought in in 1925 from a position on the Estaires-La Bassee road near "Port Arthur", and the 264 Portuguese graves of March, 1917 and April, 1919 were removed to Richebourg-L'Avoue Portuguese National Cemetery after the Armistice.

There are now over 900, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. The graves of three men of the King's Liverpool Regiment, which were destroyed by shell fire, are now represented by special headstones. The Cemetery covers an area of over 7,000 square metres and is enclosed by a low brick wall.

Dud Corner British Cemetery and Loos Memorial.

Loos Memorial to the Missing is in the same location as Dud Corner British Cemetery, on the busy M43 Lens-Mazingharbe road. The Memorial forms the sides and back of the cemetery. This is the location of a German redoubt called the Lens Road Redoubt on British Army maps. It was captured by 15th (Scottish) Division on 25^th September 1915, the first day of the Battle of Loos. This memorial commemorates 20,609 officers and men of the British forces who died in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the British First Army to the east and west of Grenay.

VC Corner Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles. ^CWGC

V.C. Corner Cemetery and Memorial was created after the Armistice. The monument contains the graves of 410 Australian soldiers who died during the attack at Fromelles on 19^th and 20^th July 1916 and whose remains were found after the battlefields were cleared in 1919. Not one of the discovered bodies, however, could be identified. It was decided that the bodies would not be buried in individual graves but they would be buried at this location and their names would be commemorated on a memorial here, together with the names of another 796 who were recorded as missing, presumed killed in action. A total of 1,206 Australian soldiers are commemorated on the memorial.

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Vis-en-Artois Memorial

The Vis-en-Artois Memorial commemorates the names of over 9,000 British, Irish and South African casualties who died in the period from 8^th August 1918 until the Armistice on 11^th November 1918.

Vis-en-Artois Memorial to the Missing