Vis-en-Artois Memorial is a World War I memorial located near the commune of Vis-en-Artois, in the Pas-de-Calais département of France. The memorial lists...
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Commission. "Vis-En-Artois Memorial". CWGC. Retrieved 1 November 2008. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery. Vis-en-Artois British...
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Bullecourt. The Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery and the Vis-en-Artois Memorial are located on the main road between Arras and Cambrai. The memorial records the...
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Vis-en-Artois (French pronunciation: [vis ɑ̃.n‿aʁtwa], literally Vis in Artois) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region...
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Allan Leonard Lewis (category Burials at Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt)
machine-gun fire. Lance-Corporal Lewis is remembered on the Vis-en-Artois memorial near Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt as he has no known grave. The...
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Australian National Memorial and the missing British soldiers killed in the battle are commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial. Bean lists the following...
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission (category British military memorials and cemeteries)
Memorial". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013. "Vis-en-Artois Memorial"...
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Division Memorial is dedicated to the memory of the French and Foreign members of the Moroccan Division, killed during the Second Battle of Artois in May...
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Douaumont Ossuary (category World War I memorials in France)
The Douaumont Ossuary (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the...
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awarded the Victoria Cross, died 21 September 1918, commemorated on Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France Richard Hakluyt, Elizabethan writer and geographer who recorded...
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The Mametz Wood Memorial commemorates an engagement of the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army during the First Battle of the Somme in France in...
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the Somme List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Artois List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders Jean-Paul Labourdette, Collectif...
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The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the...
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The Verdun Memorial is a war memorial to commemorate the Battle of Verdun, fought in 1916 as part of the First World War. It is situated on the battlefield...
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poèmes de guerre [War songs and poems]. Paris: Bloud et Gay. "Guerre 14 18 en Alsace – Le symbole du bleuet" [14-18 war in Alsace – the bleuet symbol]....
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The Loos Memorial is a World War I memorial forming the sides and rear of Dud Corner Cemetery, located near the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, in the Pas-de-Calais...
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Aubigny-en-Artois (French pronunciation: [obiɲi ɑ̃n‿aʁtwɑ]; literally "Aubigny in Artois") is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France...
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Vitry-en-Artois (French: [vitʁi ɑ̃n‿aʁtwɑ]; literally "Vitry in Artois"; Picard: Vitry-in-Artoé or Vitry-la-Gueule) is a commune and in the Pas-de-Calais...
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dogged, bearded French soldier was widely used in propaganda and war memorials. The stereotype of the poilu was of bravery and endurance, but not always...
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Glade of the Armistice (redirect from Alsace-Lorraine Memorial)
Glade of the Armistice (French: Clairière de l'Armistice) is a French war memorial in the Forest of Compiègne in Picardy, France, near the city of Compiègne...
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Notre Dame de Lorette (category Monuments and memorials in the Pas-de-Calais)
Battle of Artois (9–15 May 1915) – French attack towards Vimy Ridge Third Battle of Artois (25 September–15 October 1915) – also known as the Artois–Loos Offensive...
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The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is a memorial site in France dedicated to the commemoration of Dominion of Newfoundland forces members who were...
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but have no known grave. It also includes the Meuse-Argonne American Memorial. This cemetery is maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission...
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Stanford White's permanent Washington Arch, New York, and the Nathan Hale memorial in City Hall Park, dedicated in 1893. Until the outbreak of World War I...
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The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is the main memorial to Australian military personnel killed on the Western Front during World War...
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Montescudo. The site includes a chapel with a register of buried soldiers. A memorial cross is located at the furthest point from the entrance, and features...
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The Delville Wood South African National Memorial is a World War I memorial, located in Delville Wood, near the commune of Longueval, in the Somme department...
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Monuments aux Morts (redirect from War memorials in France)
French war memorials established to commemorate the losses of World War I. After the end of the 1914–1918 war there was a frenzy to build memorials to commemorate...
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Hohenzollern Redoubt (redirect from Hohenzollern Redoubt Memorial)
the Western Front during the First World War, at Auchy-les-Mines near Loos-en-Gohelle in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. Named after the House...
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war memorial of Clermont, Oise, France. Houdancourt (Oise) Monument The Liancourt memorial, outside City Hall. War memorial of Ons en Bray Memorial Peroy-the-Gombries...
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