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| Courcelette (Battle of the Somme) Memorial | |
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| Canada | |
 Canadian Courcelette (Battle of the Somme) Memorial | |
| For the Canadian Corps participation Battles of the Somme and the Canadian soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in those actions. | |
| Location | 50°3′15″N 2°45′5″E / 50.05417°N 2.75139°E near Courcelette, France |
The Memorial's inscription reads: THE CANADIAN CORPS BORE A VALIANT PART IN FORCING BACK THE GERMANS ON THESE SLOPES DURING THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME SEPT. 3RD - NOV. 18TH 1916 | |
The Courcelette Memorial is a Canadian war memorial that commemorates the actions of the Canadian Corps in the final two and a half months of the infamous four-and-a-half-month-long Somme Offensive of the First World War. The Canadians participated at the Somme from early September to the British offensives end in mid-November 1916, engaging in several of the battles-within-the-battle of the Somme, including actions at: Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval Ridge, the Ancre Heights, the Ancre as well as a small role in providing relief to the First Australian Imperial Force in the final days of the Battle of Pozières. The battles on the Somme were the first in which all four Canadian divisions participated in the same battle, although not together in a cohesive formation. The Canadian divisions suffered over 24,000 casualties.