Monument to the Polish volunteers who fell in the Third Battle of Artois, May 9, 1915, at La Targette. Across the front of the monument is inscribed "Za Wasza I Nasza Wolnosc", For your freedom; for our freedom. © 2013 by John M. Shea

Across the front of the monument is inscribed "Za Wasza I Nasza Wolnosc", For your freedom; for our freedom.



À la memoire des volontaires Polonais tombés au champs d'honneur sur les collines de l'Artois le 9 Mai 1915



Monument renové 1994



In memory of Polish volunteers fallen on the fields of honor / killed in action on the hills of Artois May 9, 1915



Monument renovated 1994

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Nazdar Company of the French Foreign Legion, primarily composed of Czech immigrants in France, from the Sokol educational movement and the Rovnost social-democratic movement. The fought in the Second Battle of Artois, suffering heavy casualties.

See http://www.remembrancetrails-northernfrance.com/visit-the-sites/the-front/czechoslovak-cemetery-and-memorial-neuville-saint-vaast.html

Nazdar Company is a corps in French Foreign Legion.