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Mont Saint Quentin Australian war memorial

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Unveiled
  
1925

Opened
  
1925

Mont Saint-Quentin Australian war memorial

Address
  
123 Avenue des Australiens, 80200 Péronne, France

Similar
  
McCrae's Battalion Great Wa, Monchy‑le‑Preux (Newfoundland) Memorial, Arras Flying Services, Neuve‑Chapelle Indian Memorial, Château‑Thierry American Monument

Mont Saint-Quentin Australian war memorial, located in Mont Saint-Quentin region of Picardy, is an Australian First World War memorial.

The Australian Second Division has a war memorial on the road from Bapaume to Péronne. It is the only one of the five Australian division memorials initiated by members of the division. The base was erected in 1925. It has bronze bas-reliefs by May Butler-George of men hauling and pushing a gun and of men advancing with bayoneted rifles and hand-grenades. It had on its top an Australian soldier thrusting his bayonet through a German eagle. The sculptor was Charles Web Gilbert.

However, in 1940, German soldiers smashed the memorial. A replacement statue by Stanley Hammond of a thoughtful Australian soldier looking down was erected in 1971.

References

Mont Saint-Quentin Australian war memorial Wikipedia


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