- Le Quesnel Memorial
The Le Quesnel Memorial is a
war memorial that commemorates the actions of theCanadian Corps duringWorld War I and is located just to the southwest of the village ofLe Quesnel on the road betweenAmiens andRoyce , in northernFrance . The location for the memorial was selected as it was the deepest point the Canadians (and indeed any of the Allied armies) had reached at the end of the first day of theBattle of Amiens ; 13 kilometres into German-held territory.This memorial was one of six that were created from a common design. The center is a large granite block with the inscription:cquote|THE CANADIAN CORPS ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND STRONG ON 8TH AUGUST 1918 ATTACKED BETWEEN HOURGES AND VILLERS-BRETONNEUX AND DROVE THE ENEMY EASTWARD FOR EIGHT MILES|
Monument Design
Following the
Great War each country created projects to commemorate their losses. TheseWar Memorial s were constructed throughout the 1920s and 30s. The Canadian Government held a competition for the memorial designs. There were two unique memorials created; theVimy Memorial and the Brooding Soldier of theSaint Julien Memorial . The remaining memorials were based on the same basic design of a granite block in the centre of a circular patch of grass. The memorials of this design all commemorate battles on the Western Front in Belgium(2) and France (4) including:
*Bourlon Wood Memorial
*Courcelette Memorial
*Hill 62 Memorial
*Passchendaele Memorial External links
* [http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww1mem/le_quesnel Le Quesnel Memorial - Veteran Affairs Canada ]
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