15th Scottish Infantry Division Memorial in the CWGC Buzancy Military Cemetery, near Soissons, Aisne, France.
French inscription (spelling errors?) of an English message ""Here will flourish for ever the glorious thistle of Scotland among the roses of France"": "ici fleurie atours le glorieux chardon d'ecosse parmi les roses de france". On the reverse, "The 17th French Infantry Division to The 15th Scottish Infantry Division". 28 July 1918 battle: "As an example of the grim nature of the battle, two bodies were found in one street locked together, one of a German officer with revolver in his hand, the other of his victim, a Scottish soldier clutching his rifle with bayonet which he had run through his opponent's body. The commander of the relieving French division, General C. Gassoins, on establishing his headquarters in Buzancy, seeing the still-fresh aftermath of the attack and receiving reports of what had occurred, was so impressed that he ordered the immediate construction of a memorial to the 15th Division on the position of the soldier's body found furthest forward on the battlefield, in the open fields beyond the village." Wikipedia info
Size: 3624px × 2389px
Location: Buzancy, near Soissons, Aisne, France.
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 15th, buzancy, cemetery, cwgc, division, france, great, infantry, memorial, military, scottish, soissons, war, world, wwi
