VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
The VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial - Cemetery was laid out by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission near the village of Fromelles from 1920 to 1921 .
410 fallen soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force , which were recovered from the former battlefield after the end of the war, were buried in the cemetery. The dead, none of which have been identified by name, are not in a mass grave, although there are no individual tombstones. Soldiers from the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916 were buried in this cemetery . The memorial has the names of 1,300 Australian soldiers who have no known grave. Some of them are in 710 graves of unknown soldiers in other cemeteries. In 2010, within sight of the cemetery, the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery was opened, where other dead from the battle of Fromelles were buried.
Since 2008, the Australian Memorial Park has been located 200 m from the cemetery in the direction of Fromelles .
The Memorial Park is located roughly at the point where the German lines cut through the road that still exists today during the war. The cemetery, on the other hand, is located where the Allied positions were at the time of the Battle of Fromelles.
Web links
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Details: VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 10.6 ″ N , 2 ° 50 ′ 1.6 ″ E