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Mont Saint-Quentin Australian war memorial, located in
Mont Saint-Quentin Mont Saint-Quentin overlooks the Somme River in the region of Picardie approximately 1.5 km north of the town of Péronne, Somme, France. The hill is about 100 metres high but as it is situated in a bend of the river it dominates the whole ...
region of
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, is an Australian
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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
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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 Charles Marsh Webb (Nash) Gilbert (18 March 1867 – 3 October 1925), known professionally as C. Web Gilbert, was a self-taught Australian sculptor renowned both within Australia and abroad. Gilbert was born at Cockatoo in Victoria, between Talb ...
. However, in 1940, German soldiers smashed the memorial. A replacement statue by Australian sculptor Stanley James Hammond (1913 - 2000) of a thoughtful Australian soldier looking down was erected in 1971.


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List of Australian military memorials Most Australian towns and cities have a World War I or ANZAC, and/or World War II memorial or Cenotaph. Listing and photographs are by state and territory: Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Memorials for people Northern Ter ...
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V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial The V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I cemetery and memorial. The site is located in the ''commune'' of Fromelles, in the Nord ''departement'' of France, about northwest of the vill ...
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Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is the main memorial to Australian military personnel killed on the Western Front during World War I. It is located on the Route Villiers-Bretonneux (D 23), between the towns of Fouillo ...
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Military Memorials of National Significance in Australia Military Memorials of National Significance meet a set of ten criteria laid down in the ''Military Memorials of National Significance Act of 2008'' which received assent in the Australian Government on 12 Jul 2008. All such memorials are on public ...


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History of the memorial
(Australians on the Western Front) - includes a photograph of the current memorial {{Australian war memorials Australian military memorials World War I memorials in France Monuments and memorials in Somme (department) Australian diaspora in Europe Buildings and structures completed in 1925