The Battle of Le Cateau

Depart from the town of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, latitude 50.10547 (N 50° 6’ 20”), longitude 3.54251 (E 3° 32’ 33”)

• Le Cateau – town centre

• The capture of Le Cateau on the 26th August according to eyewitness accounts.

• International cemetery at Le Cateau

• An international cemetery at the heart of the battlefield.

• Caudry – Recumbent headstones in the communal cemetery

• Rather surprisingly, there are some recumbent headstones in the cemetery of a lace-making town that was plundered during the German occupation

• Ligny-en-Cambrésis – Communal cemetery

• The grave of the first Australian soldier who died in the Great War and who is buried next to his mother

• Haucourt-en-Cambrésis – Monument to Father Toussaint Saint-Aubert (church)

• A monument to a priest who died a martyr’s death, a victim of the barbarity of war