Mont Saint-Quentin Australian war memorial
| Australian Memorial Park | |
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| Australia | |
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Sculpture by Web Gilbert on memorial from 1925-1940 | |
| For Australian forces at the Battle of Fromelles | |
| Unveiled | 1925 |
| Location | 49°56′50″N 2°55′57″E / 49.94722°N 2.93250°E |
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.[1]
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.[1]
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- 1 2 "Mont St Quentin, 2nd Australian Division Memorial". Australians on the Western Front 1914-1918. Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs. 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-03.