ANZAC Day Commemoration Ceremony  108th Anniversary
25 Apr

Details from the Australian Embassy in Brussels.

The program includes a dawn service at Buttes, New British Cemetery and commemorative services at Menin Gate and Toronto Avenue Cemetery. It has accompanying notes and weblinks, and includes commemorations jointly held with the New Zealand Embassy in Brussels.

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Buttes New British Cemetery is located in Polygon Wood, a large wood south of Zonnebeke, which was completely devastated in the First World War. In the cemetery 2,108 Commonwealth soldiers are buried or commemorated including 564 Australians. The main memorial at the cemetery is located at the top of the butte and stands in honor of the soldiers of the Australian 5th Division who captured the area on 26 September 1917.

Buttes New British Cemetery , 5th Australian Division Memorial, 8980 Zonnebeke, Belgium
ANZAC Day Commemoration Ceremony 108th Anniversary, austemb.brussels@dfat.gov.au
25 Apr 2023 06:00