Marfaux German Cemetery, Marfaux to the west of Reims, France. March 2014 Seen here : German WW1 Cemetery at Marfaux
Marfaux German Cemetery, Marfaux to the west of Reims, France. March 2014 Seen here : Next to the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery is a German WW1 Cemetery with 4417 war dead including 2700 in a mass grave most unnamed from the same period. The cemetery contains 1129 (341 unnamed )British and New Zealand WW1 war dead from the Second Battle of the Marne in the summer of 1918 when the German offensive towards Paris was halted and turned back, thus started the 100 days counter attack offensive leading to the Armistice and the end of the Great war on November 11th 1918. There is a shelter memorial to the missing from the New Zealand forces. Next to the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery is a German WW1 Cemetery with 4417 war dead including 2700 in a mass grave most unnamed )from the same period. The Second Battle of the Marne (French: Seconde Bataille de la Marne), or Battle of Reims (15 July – 6 August 1918) was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. The German attack failed when an Allied counterattack led by French forces and including several hundred tanks overwhelmed the Germans on their right flank, inflicting severe casualties. The German defeat marked the start of the relentless Allied advance which culminated in the Armistice about 100 days later. Thus the Second Battle of the Marne can be considered as the beginning of the end of the Great War. Marfaux British Cemetery is about one kilometre south-east of the village along the RD386, on the north-east side of the road to Nanteuil-la-Foret and on the south-east side of the crossroad from Bois-de-Courton. The Marfaux (New Zealand) Memorial takes the forms of a panel stone erected in the shelter in Marfaux British Cemetery, and commemorates, by name, 10 casualties of the New Zealand Cyclist Battalion who fell in July 1918 and who have no known grave. Historical Information Marfaux was captured by the Germans in May 1918, and retaken, after severe fighting, on t
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Location: Marfaux German Cemetery, Marfaux to the west of Reims, France.
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