CANADIAN BATTLEFIELD MEMORIAL
Dury
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Dury is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 1 kilometre north of the straight main road (D939) from Arras to Cambrai. Approximately 16 kilometres from Arras travelling towards Cambrai on the D939 is the Canadian Forces Memorial at Dury.
Historical Information
The Dury Canadian Memorial preserves in stone the memory of hard-fought actions to break the Drocourt-Qué ant Line. A beautifully landscaped park, complete with stately maples, surrounds the solid block of granite that tells the story:
THE CANADIAN CORPS 100,000 STRONG ATTACKED AT ARRAS ON AUGUST 26TH 1918, STORMED SUCCESSIVE GERMAN LINES AND HERE ON SEPT. 2ND BROKE AND TURNED THE MAIN GERMAN POSITION ON THE WESTERN FRONT AND REACHED THE CANAL DU NORD
Pictures © Werner Van Caneghem
Dury is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 1 kilometre north of the straight main road (D939) from Arras to Cambrai. Approximately 16 kilometres from Arras travelling towards Cambrai on the D939 is the Canadian Forces Memorial at Dury.
Historical Information
The Dury Canadian Memorial preserves in stone the memory of hard-fought actions to break the Drocourt-Qué ant Line. A beautifully landscaped park, complete with stately maples, surrounds the solid block of granite that tells the story:
THE CANADIAN CORPS 100,000 STRONG ATTACKED AT ARRAS ON AUGUST 26TH 1918, STORMED SUCCESSIVE GERMAN LINES AND HERE ON SEPT. 2ND BROKE AND TURNED THE MAIN GERMAN POSITION ON THE WESTERN FRONT AND REACHED THE CANAL DU NORD
Pictures © Werner Van Caneghem
