TLP MAG 4 - The Special Edition 2012
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A Trail of Remembrance
Gallipoli looms large in our nation’s story,
so large that it overshadows in our public
understanding, the triumph and tragedy of
Australia’s extraordinary wartime service on
the Western Front in France and Belgium.
Almost 300,000 Australians served on
the Western Front between April 1916
and November 1918. More than 46,000
Australians lost their lives, more than 100,000
were wounded and countless others incurred
less visible scars. Yet Fromelles, Pozières,
Bullecourt, Passchendaele, Villers-Bretonneux,
Mt St Quentin and the other great battles where
Australians fought in France and Belgium, are
known to relatively few.
More Australians were died on the Western
Front than in all other Australian campaigns
and conflicts of the 20th century combined.
For a nation of less than five million, the losses
touched almost every community and most of
its families.
The Australian Remembrance Trail
along the Western Front is an Australian
Government initiative aimed at improving
our understanding and appreciation of the
achievements and sacrifices of Australians in
the main theatre of the First World War. The
Trail Project has seen the Office of Australian
War Graves working in partnership with
local communities and regional authorities
in France and Belgium to establish improved
visitor facilities at former Australian First
World War battlefields.
This approach to commemorating Australian
efforts on the Western Front recognises and
builds on the significant local efforts of French
and Belgian villages, over almost a century, to
honour the memory of the Diggers.
The Project is assisting to improve existing
museum facilities and interpretive displays
and, at a number of sites, establishing
new visitor facilities. Once completed the
Australian Remembrance Trail will link a
series of sites stretching along the former
Western Front, from Villers-Bretonneux, south
of the Somme River, right up to the Belgian
battlefields around Ypres.
The first element of the Trail, the Jean and
Denise Letaille Museum – Bullecourt 1917,
was officially reopened on Anzac Day 2012.
The Museum recently underwent a major
redevelopment in order to accommodate
contemporary displays and modern exhibition
features. Yet the structural features of the
original Letaille family barn and stable remain,
along with the unique collection of weapons,
machinery and other relics left behind in fields
around Bullecourt by Australian, British and
Jean and Denise Letaille Museum before renovations
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