"Bourlon Wood" Bourlon is a village approximately 6 kilometres west of Cambrai. It lies between the main Cambrai to Bapaume road (N30) and the Cambrai to Arras road (D939). The Bourlon Wood Memorial is a Canadian war memorial that commemorates the actions of the Canadian Corps during the final months of the First World War; a period also known as Canada's Hundred Days, part of the Hundred Days Offensive. Particularly celebrated are the Canadian Corps crossing of the Canal du Nord, their flushing the German forces from Bourlon and Bourlon Wood and the 'Pursuit to Mons' through Cambrai, Denain, Valenciennes and into Mons on 11 November 1918. It is located adjacent to the town of Bourlon (about 10 km (6.2 mi) west of Cambrai, France).[1] Bourlon Wood, its village and the wood were the scene of desperate fighting in the Battle of Cambrai 1917; the 40th and the 62nd Divisions bore the brunt of this fighting. At the end of the Battle the British troops were withdrawn from Bourlon, and the wood and the village were ultimately retaken by the 3rd Canadian and 4th Canadian Divisions on 27 September 1918 as part of Canada's Hundred Days Offensive. The Bourlon Wood Cemetery was made by the Canadian Corps Burial Officer in October 1918. South-West of the cemetery is a Battlefield Memorial erected by the Canadian Government to recall the forcing of the Canal du Nord by the Canadian Corps on the 27 September 1918 and the subsequent advance through Cambrai, Denain, Valenciennes and into Mons on 11 November 1918. Photo from album which possibly belonged to Lt Reginald Vigars Prenter (RVP), 72nd Bn.