Bourlon Wood Memorial
| Bourlon Wood Memorial | |
|---|---|
| Canada | |
the Canadian Bourlon Wood Memorial | |
| For the Canadian Corps' actions in the final months of the Great War including the crossing of the Canal du Nord, their flushing of German forces from Bourlon and Bourlon Wood and the ensuing 'Pursuit to Mons' as well as the Canadian soldiers who gave the supreme sacrifice in those actions. | |
| Location | 50°10′24.51″N 003°07′09.14″E / 50.1734750°N 3.1192056°E near Bourlon, France |
The Canadian Corps on 27th Sep. 1918 forced the Canal du Nord and captured this hill. They took Cambrai, Denain, Valenciennes & Mons; then marched to the Rhine with the victorious Allies | |
The Bourlon Wood Memorial, near Bourlon, France, is a Canadian war memorial that commemorates the actions of the Canadian Corps during the final months of the First World War; a period also known as Canada's Hundred Days, part of the Hundred Days Offensive.