Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Warren Snowdon, announced plans to develop new visitor interpretive facilities at Péronne, France to highlight the Australian experience of war in the 1918 Battle of Mont St Quentin.
Mr Snowdon said the project, in equal funding partnership with French authorities, will deliver two walking trails and a new interpretive room at the l’Historial de la Grande Guerre, or Museum of the Great War, in Péronne.
“The new facilities will tell the story of the 2nd Australian Division’s greatest victory on the Western Front, the capture of Mont St Quentin on 1 September 1918, and will complement the existing Second Australian Division Memorial at Mont St Quentin,” he said.
In Paris Mr Snowdon presented the Australian Government’s initial contribution to the project of €200,000 (approximately AUD 250,000) to the Director of the l’Historial de la Grande Guerre, Mr Hervé François.
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