Monday Monuments and Memorials – Cambrai Monument to the Missing, Louverval, France

Entrance to Louverval Military Cemetery & Cambrai Monument

Cambrai Monument records names of over 7000 missing

A Forward Artillery Observer in a Captured Trench, by Charles Jagger

Stretcher Bearers, by Charles Jagger

On 20 November 1917, the British Army launched an attack toward Cambrai, an important German supply point, using about 400 tanks to great success … initially. Then the German army regrouped. By the end of the battle on 3 December, they had reclaimed almost all of the territory. The back-and-forth took a high toll, with over 40,000 casualties on each side.