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a new page of a high place of the First World War in this British cemetery of Louverval:

Memorial de Louverval on the road Cambrai - Bapaume, to 13 km in the North-East of Bapaume, is the Memorial of Louverval.Il commemorates the 7.048 British and African soldiers South which died in the Cambrai Battle in November and December 1917 and whose tombs are not known. The Cambrai battle marked by an opening on November 20, a stop on positions 22 and one counter-attack German of the 23 at November 29, showed a profit of grounds mitigated but brought to allied of invaluable tactical and strategic lesson. On their side, the Germans had discovered that their line of defence was vulnerable. The Memorial, located on a terrace at the end of the military cemetery, was designed per H. Chalton Bradshaw, the sculptor being C.S. Jagger which one can admire the two low-reliefs illustrating of the scenes of engagements.