Our goal is to trace the forgotten events mainly related to the First World War in our area of ​​Artois (Arras, Valley of the Sensee river - Cojeul river Valley in Hauts de France), and more precisely to the famous Hindenburg Line (Siegfriedstellung), the battle around it (from Arras Cambrai road at the north to Bullecout at the south), the fighters, their families, our affected villages, their inhabitants..., but also to collect the testimonies of the past that can be military objects or not, writings or still photographic documents, places, constructions ... striving to preserve them and ensure their sharing and transmission so that all current and future generations can learn and transmit in turn what happened during these terrible years of suffering.

     And most of all, we want to preserve the memory of these men and women, civil and military, from all nations, who were able to take part in the events in the region, especially the soldiers who for some of them all left, crossing sometimes the planet, to shed their blood in our fields.
 

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

"To us the memory, to them immortality" - motto of the Souvenir Français

"People be united, men be human" - Monseigneur Julien

We will remember them.

Note: you will observe that a good part is done to the British troops in our writings, it is not a particular will on our side, it is simply that the information is better available, more numerous, and more complete to this day on the side of the Commonwealth rather than German side.  Also, an important part of German archives was destroyed during WWII. Thank you for your understanding.