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2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
JANUARY
Sat 20 - Sun 21 Jan Péronne / Espace Mac
Orlan
Book fair - Australia David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
http://www.ville-
peronne.fr/fr/evenement/152555/salon-
livre
Fri 26 Jan Péronne / In-town Australia Day David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
FEBRUARY
Before Thu 15 Feb Péronne Registration for the Summer school - Environmental history of
the First World War, France and Belgium, 2-7 july 2018
https://environment1418.sciencesconf.org
Sat 24 Feb Péronne / Main sports hall 6.30pm: Brass Band musical encounters David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
http://www.ville-
peronne.fr/fr/evenement/152566/rencontre-
musical
Sun 25 Feb Villers-Bretonneux 1.00pm: March of remembrance Rotary Club Amiens les Trois Vallées
06 78 46 19 90
MARCH
Sun 25 Mar - Tue 3
Apr
Ribemont-sur-Ancre Reconstruction of the Australian barricade Municipality of Ribemont-sur-Ancre
03 22 40 61 63 / 06 75 85 03 53
Wed 28 Mar La Cauchie 2.30pm: Commemoration for 5 AIF soldiers Municipality of La Cauchie
03 21 48 96 74
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Sat 31 Mar - Sun 1
Apr
Péronne / Espace Patrick
Dupond
Aboriginal music David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
APRIL
Sat 7 Apr Dernancourt
Entrance of the town
French and
Commonwealth
cemeteries
Town’s main square
100th Anniversary of Battle
Day of commemorative activities:
3.00pm: Inauguration of the bridge located
3.15pm: Plantation of the oak of remembrance followed by
readings by children
3.45pm: Run on the path of remembrance
4.00pm: Wreath laying
4.15pm: Exhibition of pictures and objects
4.45pm: Friendship drink and entertainment
Municipality of Dernancourt
03 22 75 17 38
Sat 7 - Sun 8 Apr Péronne / Espace Patrick
Dupond
Aboriginal music David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
Sat 14 Apr Vieux-Berquin
War Memorial
Aval Wood cemetery
“Espace Louis de
Berquin” hall
Village hall
Village hall
Centennial anniversary 14-18
4.00pm: Ceremony
4.30pm: Ceremony
5.30pm: Friendship drink
6.30pm – 7.30pm: Dinner
7.40pm: Live-screening of the event at Canberra in honour of
Ernest Corby
Yannick BENOIST, Vice President of
CSPM (Comité de Soutien au Patrimoine
Merrisien)
Sat 14 - Sun 15 Apr Péronne / Espace Mac
Orlan
10.00am – 6.00pm: Péronne’s food show David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Sun 15 Apr Allonville
Monument aux Morts,
Commonwealth
Monument
Community centre
Municipal library,
Church
Church
Commemorative day:
10.00am: Commemorative ceremony
12.00am : Inauguration of the exhibition: Life in Australian
garrisons in Allonville in 1918, followed by a reception
1.00pm: Catering and entertainment
4.30pm: Theatrical representation
Martial LOUIS, Committee for the
organisation of the Centenary
Merris
Village church
War Memorial
Boarding school
Village hall
Cemtery in Merris
Cemetery in
Outtersteene
Chapel of the boarding
school
Boarding school
Centennial anniversary 14-18
10.30am – 11.30am: Religious ceremony
11.45am – 12.30pm: Ceremony
12.45pm – 1.45pm: Cocktail
2.00pm – 3.30pm: Lunch
3.45pm – 4.30pm: Inauguration of the Vauthier marker stone
4.30pm – 5.00pm: Ceremony
5.15pm – 6.00pm: Ceremony
6.15pm: Inauguration of the “House of Memory” followed by
a friendship drink
7.30pm: Aperitif and dinner
Yannick BENOIST, Vice President of
CSPM (Comité de Soutien au Patrimoine
Merrisien) [email protected]
Mon 16 - Mon 30
Apr
Villers-Bretonneux Community event “A flower for our heroes” Lorraine EL YABOURI with the
municipality of Villers-Bretonneux and the
local entertainment association (ABA)
along with volunteers
Wed 18 Apr Allonville
Place de la Mare du Four
Church
Community centre
4.00pm: Conference : Allonville : the memory of 1918
5.00pm: Concert by the Australian choir “Voices of Birralee”
7.00pm: Dinner of friendship, sharing and common
remembrance
Martial LOUIS, Committee for the
organisation of the Centenary
Thur 19 Apr Vignacourt
Interpretive centre
5.00pm – 8.00pm:
Exhibition on the theme “Poppies, cornflowers and mimosas”
organised by the association ATOUTAGE
Municipality of Vignacourt
03 22 39 44 00
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Community centre Exhibition “Objects, witnesses of the First World War”,
organised by the association Maison des Australiens
Wed 18 - Sun 22 Apr Arras International Meeting for Peace Centenary Association for Peace
03 21 21 40 93
Fri 20 Apr Péronne / SIVOS stadium Giant peaceful gathering “1918 Péronnais for Australia” [email protected]
http://www.ville-
peronne.fr/fr/actualite/141510/1918-
peronnais-australie
Vignacourt
Interpretive centre
Community centre
6.00pm: Opening of the exhibition
7.00pm: Opening of the exhibition and reception hosted by the
Municipality
Municipality of Vignacourt
03 22 39 44 00
Villers-Bretonneux
Marché couvert
8.30pm : Show by the children of the municipality of Villers-
Bretonneux
Municipality of Villers-Bretonnneux
03 22 96 31 00
Local entertainment association (ABA)
Jean-Michel DESMET
06 27 16 56 57
Fri 20 - Sun 29 Apr Villers-Bretonneux /
Victoria room and
museum
Exhibition on the Villers-Bretonneux battle and the first tank
battle of the armed forces, the RSL and the Australia Post
Municipality of Villers-Bretonnneux
03 22 96 31 00
Local entertainment association (ABA)
Jean-Michel DESMET
06 27 16 56 57
Sat 21 Apr Longueval Afternoon: NZ Anzac Day Commemoration Municipality of Longueval
03 22 85 02 09
Fricourt 3.30pm – 8.30pm: Town activities and ceremony to
commemorate the death of the Red Baron
Municipality of Fricourt
03 22 74 62 72
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Vaux-sur-Somme
Vaux-sur-Somme
Village square
Village hall
Village hall
Day devoted to the Centenary of the death of Manfred Von
Richthofen, The Red Baron:
9.00am: Le Hamel walk in Vaux-sur-Somme
10.00am – 2.00pm:.Presentation of the replica of Manfred
Von Richtofen’s Fokker DR1
6.00pm: Screening of the documentary by Peter Moers:
“Manfred von Richtofen, the Red Baron”
7.00pm: Screening of the film “The Red Baron” by Nikolai
Müllerschön
Val de Somme tourist office
03 22 96 95 76
Registration for the walk:
06 18 14 21 10
Vignacourt
Community centre
Interpretive centre
Football field
Vignacourt church
Vignacourt church
10.00am: Start of the “Ceremony of remembrance” march at
the British cemetery, with the Vignacourt music band and the
Veterans
11.30am: Visit of the Centre followed by a pre-lunch concert
by the Vignacourt music band
2.00pm: Initiation to cricket followed by a game between Lille
and Arras clubs, organised by the Community centre
6.00pm: Mass celebrated by the bishop of Amiens
7.30pm: Concert by The Voices of Birralee – Bruno Sauty as
the curtain-raiser
Municipality of Vignacourt
03 22 39 44 00
Villers-Bretonneux /
Indoor market
9.00pm : Concert by the Musical Group of Corbie and the
Amiens brass orchestra
Municipality of Villers-Bretonnneux
03 22 96 31 00
Local entertainment association (ABA)
Jean-Michel DESMET
06 27 16 56 57
Sat 21 April – Tue 1
May
Saint-Gratien / Castle Exhibition “Australian War Artists” ((Fullwood, Leist,
Streeton)
Saint-Gratien castle
06 52 68 57 44
Sun 22 Apr Blangy-Tronville 9.00am – 1.00pm: Town breakfast / Service in cemetery /
School renaming
Municipality of Blangy-Tronville
03 22 38 18 01
mairie.blangy-tronville@amiens-
metropole.com
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Le Quesnoy Morning: NZ Anzac Day Commemoration Municipality of Le Quesnoy
03 27 47 55 50
Villers-Bretonneux
Departure from the car
park of the Australian
National Memorial in
Villers-Bretonneux
Salle Victoria
Marché couvert
Marché couvert
9.00am: 11-km hike between the Le Hamel Memorial and the
Australian National Memorial of Villers-Bretonneux
11.30am: Welcome drink for the walkers and launch of the
exhibition and diorama about the first battle of tanks
2.00pm: Introduction to didgeridoo
8.30pm: Conference on the first battle of tanks and diorama
Ms DELUDON
03 22 48 26 36
Vignacourt
Community centre
9.45am – 12.30pm: Anzac Run (5 or 10km), and children run
1.00pm: Australian barbie organised by the Maison des
Australiens and the InterCultural Consulting Group Australia
VignaRun Association
Michel TROUILLET (President)
06 87 00 44 39
Municipality of Vignacourt
03 22 39 44 00
Pozières Pedestrian rally Yves POTARD, President of the “Digger
Cote 160” Association
07 60 00 69 43
Albert Commemorative flag rugby game Office de Tourisme du Pays du Coquelicot
03 22 75 16 42
Sun 22 - Mon 23 Apr Villers-Bretonneux /
Victoria room
9.00am – 6.00pm: Diorama on the battles of Villers-
Bretonneux with photo exhibition “Villers-Bretonneux
destroyed and rebuilt”
Municipality of Villers-Bretonnneux
03 22 96 31 00
Local entertainment association (ABA)
Jean-Michel DESMET
06 27 16 56 57
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Mon 23 Apr Caix 10.15am – 1.30pm: Inauguration of the memorial to LT Leckie
and Cuttle
Gérard THIERRY, President of the
Souvenir Français
06 11 90 10 52
Villers-Bretonneux
In the town centre
Timmerman stadium or
COB
Marché couvert
2.00pm – 5.00pm: Trip on a horse-drawn carriage
2.00pm: Introduction to cricket
8.30pm: Concert by the choir Voices of Birralee
Municipality of Villers-Bretonnneux
03 22 96 31 00
Local entertainment association (ABA)
Jean-Michel DESMET
06 27 16 56 57
Amiens / Cirque Jules
Verne
8.30pm: “Diggers’ Requiem” concert by the Orchestra of
Picardie
Cirque Jules Verne
03 22 35 40 41
https://www.weezevent.com/the-diggers-
requiem
Tue 24 Apr Sir John Monash Centre
Opening
Australian National Event Australian Government
Fromelles / Pheasant
Wood cemetery
10.00am: Anzac Day commemorative service Municipality of Fromelles
Villers-Bretonneux /
Timmerman stadium
2.00pm – 4.30pm: Introduction to footy Municipality of Villers-Bretonnneux
03 22 96 31 00
Local entertainment association (ABA)
Jean-Michel DESMET
06 27 16 56 57
Tue 24 - Wed 25 Apr Villers-Bretonneux /
Playground of Victoria
school
Reconstruction of a scene from the First World War by the
Somme 14-18 association
Franco-Australien Museum
03 22 96 80 79
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Wed 25 Apr Villers-Bretonneux
Australian National
Memorial
War Memorial
Bullecourt
War Memorial
Digger Memorial
5.30am: Dawn Service (Australian National
Commemoration)
8.30am: Villers-Bretonneux Town Service (French
ceremony)
2.30pm:Bullecourt Town Service (French ceremony)
3.30pm: Digger Service (Australian National
Commemoration)
Australian Government
Municipality of Villers-Bretonnneux
03 22 96 31 00
Municipality of Bullecourt
03 21 48 92 34
Australian Government
Cachy / Cemetery 11.00am: Commemorative ceremony of Anzac Day Municipality of Cachy
03 22 42 91 17
Le Hamel / Community
centre
8.00am: Australian breakfast Comité des fêtes of Le Hamel
03 22 96 91 72 / 06 76 86 22 93
Villers-Bretonneux
Marché couvert
Franco-Australian
museum
Timmerman stadium
Timmerman stadium
9.00am: Concert by the band of the Garde Républicaine
followed by the Sadlier-Stokes prize ceremony
10th ANZAC CUP footy matches (women and men)
11.15am: Parade of the 4 teams
12.00pm: Ceremony
12.15pm: Women game
2.00pm: Men game
4.30pm: Trophy presentation and commemorative ceremony
* Traditional Anzac Day barbie between the games
Municipality of Villers-Bretonnneux
03 22 96 31 00
Local entertainment association (ABA)
Jean-Michel DESMET
06 27 16 56 57
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Péronne Hockey event Johan BISSIAU, Point of contact for
Australia 2018 in charge of sporting events
Wed 25 Apr - Wed
30 May
Péronne / Alfred-
Danicourt museum
Monday – Friday, 2.00pm – 5.00pm & Sat 19 May, 6.00pm –
10.00pm: Art’borigène exhibition
David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
Fri 27 Apr Amiens / Golf Green Memorial Day Golf Trophy Jean-Claude OLEKSY
06 86 55 95 59
http://memorialdaygolftrophy.com/
Sat 28 - Sun 29 Apr Péronne / Espace Mac
Orlan
10.00am – 6.00pm: Australia in “Playmobil” David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
MAY
Sat 5 - Sun 6 May Amiens – Glisy Air show ACPAM
Aérodrome Amiens-Glisy
03 22 38 10 70
www.20000lieuesdanslesairs-amiens.fr
Tue 8 May Paris Victory in Europe Day
Sat 12 May Morbecque 10.30am – 2.30pm: Australian, NZ and UK plaque
inauguration and photo exhibition
Municipality of Morbecque
03 28 41 81 86
Sat 19 May Péronne / Alfred-
Danicourt museum
6.00pm – 10.00pm: European Museum Night on Australian
theme
David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
Fri 20 - Sat 21 May Cachy / Church Exhibition clichés photos and postcards on Cachy Municipality of Cachy
03 22 42 91 17
JUNE
Sat 2 June Morbecque Ceremonies Municipality of Morbecque
03 28 41 81 86
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Fri 8 June Le Hamel / Community
centre
8.00pm: Cabaret show « Comme en 14 » (Like in 14) Comité des fêtes of Le Hamel
03 22 96 91 72 / 06 76 86 22 93
Sat 9 June Le Hamel
Community centre
Community centre
Stadium
Great War Day:
2.00pm – 7.00pm: Stamp exhibition on the First World War
7.00pm: Meal with musical entertainment
11.00pm: Dancing fountain show with evocation of
the First World War
Comité des fêtes of Le Hamel
03 22 96 91 72 / 06 76 86 22 93
Sat 16 June Péronne World football cup in Russia:
France vs Australia live screening
Johan BISSIAU, Point of contact for
Australia 2018 in charge of sporting events
Sat 16 June - Sun 16
Sept
Péronne / Alfred-
Danicourt museum
“We were Australian in Péronne” exhibition David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
Sat 23 - Sun 24 June Péronne / Espace Mac
Orlan
Sat, 8.00pm & Sun, 3.00pm: “Tribute to Australia” dance gala David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
JULY
Sun 1 July Péronne / CAM pond “Australian tunes” musical ballad David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
Mon 2 July Le Hamel / Church 8.00pm: Concert by an Australian choir Comité des fêtes of Le Hamel
03 22 96 88 06 / 06 76 86 22 93
Mon 2 – Sat 7 July Péronne Summer school - Environmental history of the First World
War, France and Belgium
https://environment1418.sciencesconf.org
Wed 4 July Le Hamel / Le Hamel
Corps Memorial
Australian National Commemoration
Australian Government
Thu 5 July - Tue 4
Sept
Corbie / Entertainment
centre
Photo exhibition by David Delannoy « Poussières d’histoires » Cultural department of the municipality of
Corbie
03 22 96 43 30
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Sat 7 July Péronne / Boinet sports
hall
Day “Australian sports and remembrance” Johan BISSIAU, Point of contact for
Australia 2018 in charge of sporting events
Tue 10 July Gueudecourt Memorial garden opening Mairie de Gueudecourt
03 22 85 67 33
Fri 13 July Le Hamel / Community
centre
7.00pm: Evening of the Centenary of the Battle of Le Hamel Comité des fêtes of Le Hamel
03 22 96 88 06 / 06 76 86 22 93
Thu 19 July Fromelles Annual Town Commemoration Municipality of Fromelles
03 20 50 20 43
Fri 20 July Le Tréport 2.00pm: Re-unification ceremony for PTE Hurdis Municipality of Le Tréport
02 35 50 55 20
Fri 20 – Sat 21 – Sun
22 July
Pozières Evening: Sound and Light show Yves POTARD, President of the “Digger
Cote 160” Association
07 60 00 69 43
Mon 23 July Pozières Annual Town Commemoration Municipality of Pozières
03 22 74 57 28
Fri 27 – Sat 28 – Sun
29 July
Pozières Evening: Sound and Light show Yves POTARD, President of the “Digger
Cote 160” Association
07 60 00 69 43
AUGUST
Fri 3 Aug Lamotte-Warfusée /
Santerre Community
Centre
8.30pm: « Comme en 14! » cabaret show Val de Somme tourist office
03 22 96 95 76
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Sat 4 Aug Harbonnières 9.00am: Commemoration of the liberation of Harbonnières and
of the capture of “Amiens gun” baptised the “Harbonnières
gun”
Gérard THIERRY, President of the
Souvenir Français
06 11 90 10 52
Marcelcave / Village hall 8.30pm: Show « Carnets de Guerre » (War Diaries) Val de Somme tourist office
03 22 96 95 76
Sun 5 Aug Chipilly / Ball Trap room 3.00pm: Whimsical Show « Comique Troupier » (Barrack-
Room humour)
Val de Somme tourist office
03 22 96 95 76
5.00pm: Cabaret Show « Les poilus désenchantés » Val de Somme tourist office
03 22 96 95 76
Wed 8 Aug Amiens Battle of Amiens / Last 100 days
UK/CAN/AUS/USA Commemoration Australian Government
Sun 12 Aug Marcelcave / Town Hall
Square
10.00am: Performance by the “Somme Battlefield Pipe Band” 06 84 40 20 92
Mon 13 Aug Villers-Bretonneux / Le
Hamel / Chipilly
10.00am: The Last Hurray Tour Municipality of Villers-Bretonnneux
03 22 96 31 00
Sun 26 Aug Bonnay 10.00am – 4.30pm: Festival of the Centenary “Tribute to the
WW1 French soldiers of the village and the allies”
Mairie de Bonnay
03 22 48 12 82
Fri 31 August Bellenglise 5.00pm – 6.30pm: Ceremony at the French Monument Denis DUVAL, Deputy Mayor of
Bellenglise
SEPTEMBER
Sat 1 Sept Péronne / Pedestrian
circuit from Péronne to
Assevillers
12.30am: March for Cecil Healy David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Méricourt-L’abbé 10.00pm: First World War evening Municipality of Méricourt-l’Abbé
06 81 68 61 90 / 06 03 15 83 71
Sun 2 Sept Péronne 5.30pm: 100th Anniversary Battle of Mont St Quentin /
Liberation of Péronne (2018 Year of Australia)
David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
Pozières Horse rally Yves POTARD, President of the “Digger
Cote 160” Association
07 60 00 69 43
Péronne / Espace Mac
Orlan
Concert by an Australian performer (to be precised) David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
Méricourt-L’abbé Big musical parade Municipality of Méricourt-l’Abbé
06 81 68 61 90 / 06 03 15 83 71
Sun 12 Sept Cachy / Escadrille des
cigognes square
6.30pm: Commemorative ceremony and tribute to Georges
Guynemer
Municipality of Cachy
03 22 42 91 17
Thu 13 Sept Péronne / Le Picardy
movie theatre and
Béranger junior high
school
Australia on screen David DE SOUSA, Péronne’s Cultural
Director
Sat 22 - Sun 30 Sept Vecquemont / Community
centre
10.00am – 5.00pm: Exhibition “14-18, from the red zone to the
white zone. Field hospital”
Municipality of Vecquemont
03 22 48 44 73
Sat 29 Sept Chaulnes Area commemoration and inauguration (to be confirmed)
OCTOBER
Tue 2 - Sat 27 Oct Corbie / Entertainment
centre
10.00am – 12.00am and 2.00pm – 6.00pm: Festival of War
images: 14-18 in Val de Somme
Val de Somme tourist office
03 22 96 95 76
2018 Commemoration Ceremony Dates - and events -
Date Place Event Contact details
Fri 5 Oct Montbrehain Ceremonies to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the
battle
Municipality of Montbrehain
03 23 63 41 09
NOVEMBER
Sun 4 Nov Le Quesnoy NZ National Commemoration Municipality of Le Quesnoy
03 27 47 55 50
Sat 10 Nov Méricourt-L’Abbé End of the afternoon: Remembrance show « Mots tranchées » Municipality of Méricourt-l’Abbé
06 81 68 61 90 / 06 03 15 83 71
Sat 10 - Sun 11 Nov Heilly / Saint-Pierre
Church
2.30pm – 5.00pm on Saturday 10 nov, and 10.00am – 5.00pm
on Sunday 11 nov: Exhibition “The soldiers of Hautefeuille of
the First World War”
Association de sauvegarde des sites
historiques d’Heilly (ASSHH)
06 74 39 03 75
Sun 11 Nov Villers-Bretonneux /
Australian National
Memorial
11.00am: Australian National Commemoration Australian Government
Paris (to be confirmed) French National Commemoration
Méricourt-L’Abbé 10.30am: Commemorative ceremony with the pipe band
“Samarobriva pipes and drums”
Municipality of Méricourt-l’Abbé
06 81 68 61 90 / 06 03 15 83 71
2019
MAY
Fri 4 or Sat 5 May Mailly-le-Camp (Aube) 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Mailly camp Mr Jean ODDOU
06 58 47 81 70
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