Monument to the Third Australian Division on Route D1 in Sailly-le-Sec, France.

A plaque on the monument reads:



To the officers non-commissioned officers and men of the

Third Australian Division

Who fought in France and Belgium

1916 * 1917 * 1918

Messines 1917 * The Windmill * 3rd Battle of Ypres * Broodseinde * Passchendaele * Morlancourt * Treux Hamel * 8th August * Proyart * Suzanne * Bray-sur-Somme * Curlu * Clery-sur-Somme * Bouchavesnes * Roisel * Hindenburg Line



Beneath this is the garlanded French plaque:



À la Mémoire

des officiers, sous-officiers et soldats de la

Troisième Division Australienne

Qui ont combattu en France et en Belgique

1916 * 1917 * 1918

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Thursday, March 30, 1916

"— Vast reinforcements of Australian soldiers on their way from Egypt. Laughing giants. But I picture their skeletons with grinning teeth. . . ."

Quotation Context

Entry from March 28, 29, or 30, 1916 from the diary of Michel Corday, a senior civil servant in the French government. In his diary, Corday expressed criticism of the war that he rarely expressed in public.

Source

The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 154, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934

Tags

1916-03-30, 1916, March, Australia, Australian soldier, ANZAC