The Hundred Days Offensive
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Description
The Hundred Days Offensive (August-November 1918).
From August 1918 onwards, a rapid series of Allied victories eventually led to the Armistice: this was the Hundred Days Offensive. For some British soldiers it meant a return to Mons, to the very place where the war had begun for them.
Technical informations
60 km
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max. 153 m
min. 41 m
691 m
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Altimetric profile
Starting point
Steps
Bourlon – Canadian memorial
A key ridge in the liberation of Cambrai captured by the Canadians in October 1918.
Cambrai – Place du 9 octobre
A square in typical reconstruction style that had fallen victim to the scorched earth policy.
Iwuy – “Niagara” cemetery
A terrible rearguard action that witnessed one of the rare appearances of German tanks in the war
Romeries
Two gravestones that are as close to one another as they are symbolically distant
Vertigneul
The graves of the Kiwi soldiers from the other side of the world
Ors
The Forester’s House where Wilfred Owen wrote his last letter to his mother a few days before his death.
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