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“Australian Week - Share the Australian spirit" in Villers-Bretonneux

Friday April 20 2012

The "Australian Week" is organised by the Municipality of Villers-Bretonneux with the participation of the Australian Embassy. Concerts, walks...

From the 22nd to 25th April, flights over the 1914-1918 battlefields. Information at the Tourist Office Office opposite the Town Hall.

Friday April 22nd at 8.30 pm

Concert by the Wesley College of Melbourne – “Marché Couvert” (Market Hall)

Saturday April 23rd :

Australian Rules Football :
- 9.30 am : initiation for the children
-3.30 pm : 3 rd ANZAC Cup -match France/Australia

Sunday April 24th:

- 9.00 am : Cross country walk from Australian Memorial Park in Le Hamel to the Australian National Memorial, meeting point : Maison pour tous.
- "The course of Remembrance" - Town Hall Square
3.00pm : 12 km cycling course
3.45pm : 5km running course

Monday April 25th:

Villers-Bretonneux :

3.30 am-5.00 am : Shuttle service from Villers to Memorial - Saint Exupery School

Official Anzac Day Dawn Service – Australian National Memorial

- 3.30 am: Site of the memorial opens
Shuttle service from Villers-Bretonneux to Memorial (time and details at a later date)
- 5.15 am: Last time by which public are advised to arrive
- 5.30 am: Dawn Service commences
- 8.15 am: Depart of the Australian Parade for the French War Monument - Meeting point : Franco-Australian Museum
- 8.30 am: Ceremony at the French War Monument - Town Hall Square
- 9.00 am : Presentation of the Australian scholarship Sadlier-Stokes-Market Hall followed by a Concert by the "Ensemble Musical de Corbie" - Market Hall
- 9.30 am : Book launch by author Margaret Clark for her book about Jo Hayne, an Australian Soldier - Victoria School
-11.00 am : Easter egg hunt - Vendeville Park

 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

The Franco-Australian Museum will be open from Friday, April 22nd to Sunday 24th, 9.30 am to 5.30 pm and open Monday, April 25th, 7.00 am to 5.30 pm nonstop

For further Information :

Musée franco-australien
9, rue du Victoria
80800 Villers-Bretonneux
Tel./fax : +33 (0)3 22 96 80 79
museeaustralien@neuf.fr

Corbie Bocage Trois Vallées Tourist Office
28/30, place de la République
80800 Corbie
Tel. : + 33 (0)3 22 96 95 76
officetourismecorbie.80@laposte.net
www.visit-amiens.com

Villers-Bretonneux Town Hall
Place Charles de Gaulle
80800 Villers-Bretonneux
Tel. : + 33 (0)3 22 96 31 00
mairie.victoria@wanadoo.fr
www.villers-bretonneux.com

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