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Memorial 9th (Scottish) Division, Athies.








Het monument staat op een nieuwe plek, vroeger zoals beschreven in vele reisgidsen stond het tussen de N50 (Douai naar Arras) in. Tegenwoordig staat het monument vlakbij de Britse begraafplaats "Baileul Road Cemetery East" van uit het plaatsje Athies ten oosten van Arras noordelijk (NIET DE D37).
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[Patrick Mestdag]

Oct 2009




The seaforth Highlanders hebben hun apart monument .
zie
http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/viewtopic.php?p=290044#290044



On 9th April 1917 the 9th (Scottish) Division, commanded by Major-General Lukin
(who had previously commanded the South African Brigade) advanced and took the German positions around Pont du Jour, east of Arras.
They remained on the Arras front until the end of the battle.
After the war their Old Comrades Association erected a memorial cairn close to a section of German trench captured by the Division on 9th April.
The stone was brought from Scotland, and stones were erected close by to every unit in the Division.
In recent years access to this site has been difficult due to fast Arras - Douai road close by,
and in late 2006 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission moved the memorial to a new site alongside the Point du Jour Military Cemetery.
Access to this memorial is now via Fampoux, from the direction of nearby Athies.
Sadly some of the memorial stones have been damaged, and it seems the section of preserved trench is lost.

Bron :
9th (Scottish) Division Memorial, Point du Jour
http://battlefields1418.50megs.com/9divmemorial.htm
en
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/memoiresdepierre/alphabetnew/a/athiesmonumentecossais.html

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Patrick
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