Description
The Cross of Sacrifice, which stands close to the church on a slope facing the front, dominates the group of steles grouped together in a hexagonal enclosure, where each of the 250 bodies found in the Pheasant Wood graves was re-interred with joint honors by the British and Australian armed forces. The Bois des Faisans cemetery is the first to be built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission since the 1960s. It was inaugurated on July 19, 2010 in the presence of the highest British, Australian and French authorities, at which time 94 soldiers had been identified. As identification work progresses, other headstones bearing the words "Known unto God" will gradually be replaced by headstones bearing the soldiers? new identities.
