CWGC / Adelaide Cemetery / Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France
Adelaide Cemetery at Villers-Bretonneaux on the Somme in France contains the burials of 960 WW1 servicemen, 266 of which remain unidentified.
The majority of the men buried here fought with the Australian Imperial Forces.
Villers-Bretonneux the Australian National Memorial in the Somme department, France
Between the towns of Fouilloy and Villers-Bretonneux the Australian National Memorial, 'Villers-Bretonneux' dominates the fields and it's the main memorial to Australian military personnel killed on the Western Front during WWI. I visited this cemetery to pay respects to my husband's great uncle.
It's located in the Somme department of France and is an important place for Australian visitors to honour the fallen and pay their respects.
Address: Route de Villers Bretonneux, 80800 Fouilloy, France
French tour information - afrenchcollection.com
Anzac Day Sadlier & Stokes Prize: Film of pupils of CM1, Victoria School, Villers Bretonneux
The film is in subtitled English version
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For the centenary of the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux and ANZAC Day, the CM1 class at Victoria School produced a 25-minute documentary titled DO NOT FORGET AUSTRALIA, the duty of remembrance in Villers-Bretonneux.
The film won the Sadlier-Stokes Award in this centenary year! The prize was awarded on April 25 by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
While watching the film, you will follow the students who make moving discoveries: the Australian National Memorial, the Adelaide cemetery, the Franco-Australian museum, the Victoria school ...
If you like it, please share it with your contacts and with as many schools as possible. This will highlight the work of our French students Villers-Bretonneux and participate in the duty of memory!
They will live, because we talked about it
Villers Bretonneux
Impressie van de begraafplaats van het Sir John Manash centre in Villers-Bretonneux, Frankrijk. Hier rusten de Australische militairen die sneuvelden in de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Villers-Bretonneux Australian Memorial
The Australian first world war memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
The Unknown Soldier - ANZAC Clip
This clip is to honor all our fallen soldiers, the Diggers, through all the wars we have fought in, although mainly it is to remember the war on the Western Front in France. Visiting Adelaide Cemetery and the Australian War Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux (France) was an emotional time and finding the original resting place for the Unknown Soldier who was moved to the War Memorial in Canberra I decided to make a clip and put to it the wonderful song of Lee Kernaghan Spirit of the ANZACs. Having also visited the grave in Canberra this clip shows both resting places, plus other photos from the Western Front.
VC Corner Australian Cemetery (2017-04-21)
VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial - Fromelles, France.
This is the only cemetery on the Western Front battlefields where only Australian soldiers are interred.
The cemetery was established after the end of WWI. The remains of 410 Australian soldiers were brought here from the surrounding area. None of these soldiers could be identified, at the time. They were Australians and believed to have been killed during the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916.
It was decided to inter these unknown Australian soldiers in this cemetery without headstones. The names of Australian soldiers missing in action and known to have been killed during this battle were inscribed on the memorial wall at the north-eastern end of the cemetery.
The Battle of Fromelles, intended as a diversion for the British offensive on the Somme, is considered to be the worst 24 hours in Australian military history. By the close of fighting the Australian Forces had suffered 5,533 casualties in what was their first military action of the Great War on European soil.
Australian War Cemetary, France
Adelaida cemetery-History behind the Haunt
Considered one of the most haunted cemeteries, Adelaida Cemetery outside of Paso Robles in the Central Coast of California, is filled with stories of shadowy figures, strange voices and other things that go bump in the night. Check it for yourself to see what you believe!
FROMELLES: TNT AT OPENING OF NEW WAR CEMETERY IN FRANCE
In July 2010 the Prince of Wales attended the dedication ceremony of a new Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Fromelles in northern France.
Thousands of British and Australian soldiers were killed in a nearby battle in 1916 and many were dumped in huge mass graves by the German forces.
Lembis Englezos, an Australian schoolteacher discovered the existence of the graves and, eventually, persuaded the authorities that the graves should be exhumed and wherever possible the bodies should be identified and given individual headstones in the new cemetery.
In July 2010 his ambition was achieved when the Prince of Wales attended the dedication service at Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery.
This programmes features the ceremony, tells the story of the Battle of Fromelles and interviews and fellow Aussie Tim Whitford, whose relative was the first to be identified from the mass graves.
The Unknown Soldier - Paul Keating
To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the body of an unknown Australian soldier was recovered from Adelaide Cemetery near Villers-Bretonneux in France and transported to Australia . After lying in state in King's Hall in Old Parliament House, Unknown Australian Soldier was interred in the Hall of Memory at the Memorial on 11 November 1993. He was buried with a bayonet and a sprig of wattle in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, and soil from the Pozières battlefield was scattered in his tomb.
The Unknown Australian Soldier represents all Australians who have been killed in war.
Remembering my Great Uncle Donald Smallwood McDonald was killed on the Somme, France 100 years ago
Donald was buried in the Adelaide cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux just 4 rows from Allen Harris Pickering, he is my wife's (Joy) 2nd cousin once removed, Allen died 3 weeks after Donald, that is amazing. Video is at the Wagga Wagga Memorial Gardens, (NSW, Australia) and cenotaph where we placed a wreath, at the 11th hour, Lest We Forget.
American World War I cemeteries in France, as seen in 1919 HD Stock Footage
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American World War I cemeteries in France, as seen in 1919
Panning View from a nearby hill, overlooking an American World War I cemetery, somewhere in France, as seen in 1919. It is layed out in the form of a long rectangle, with white roads and paths enclosing and crisscrossing the entire area, so that each individual row of graves is bounded by a white path. Its major roads intersect at a circle with flagpole at the center. The cemetery is in a level field surrounded by pastureland, except for the overlooking hill from which it is photographed. Scene shifts to Argonne American cemetery in France. Aerial views of graves. Foliage at the hill side. Plantings form letters of cemetery name i.e.Argonne Cemetery, at the edge of the field of crosses. The American flag flies at the cemetery. Individual Graves are seen marked with numbered white crosses bearing names of fallen American soldiers of World War 1. Several markers bear the cross of David, at graves of Jewish American soldiers. Closeups of some crosses near end of sequence. One is numbered 201, and reads: George C. Long, Pvt. CO M. 327 Inf. Location: France. Date: 1919.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission factory
The New Zealand Defence Force Anzac Western Front contingent visited the Commonwealth War Graves Commission factory in Beaurains, France, in April 2016.
This video explains the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as caretakers of our fallen around the world.
Remembrance Day at Villers-Bretonneux
Mat recounts his experiences of commemorating the 100th anniversary of Remembrance Day at the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux in France.
Bagneux Military Cemetery, Somme, France
Video of this well looked after CWGC cemetery in France.
Dedication Ceremony for the new CWGC Abuja Memorial, Nigeria
On 31 August, Boris Johnson MP joined UK and Nigerian officials at a dedication service for the new Commonwealth War Graves Commission Abuja Memorial, within the National Military Cemetery in Nigeria.
The memorial was constructed by the CWGC last year to honour more than 2,000 African servicemen who died in the First and Second World Wars.
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Hindenburg line Pt.1
British and french attack on the Hindenburg line, WW1.
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CWGC 2018 SVSS
Beitrag zur Cold Water Grill Challenge 2018, Nominiert durch die Dorfgemeinschaft Niederfellendorf.