Talk on Villers-Bretonneux at Shrine of Remembrance (Friends of the 15th Brigade commemoration ceremony)
Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, MelbourneThis service remembers the successful recapture of Villers Bretonneux in late April 1918. The French town was of great tactical value and on 24 April the Germans seized it from exhausted Allied defenders. Had they kept the town, it would have allowed them to threaten Allied positions at Amiens. The Germans held the town for...
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