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15 Apr.,2024

 

Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilly, France

The cemetery and the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The view within this image looks towards the Stone of Remembrance, also known as the War Stone, at the entrance to the cemetery, flanked by two large portico pavilions. This is a concentration cemetery, created after the Armistice of November 1918, bringing together graves and remains from the nearby battlefields and from several military burial grounds in the area. A total of 2,142 First World War servicemen from the British Commonwealth are buried or commemorated here.

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