to the Battlefield Memorials Commission, Percy Erskine Nobbs. Situated on key points of the battlefield they memorialize, the central feature of the memorials would be a 13-tonne cube-shaped block of white-grey granite quarried near Stanstead, Quebec. The blocks are essentially identical, carved with wreathes on two opposing sides and inscribed with the phrase "Honour to the Canadians who on the fields of Flanders and France fought in the cause of the Allies with sacrifice and devotion" around the base. Though uniform in design, they are differentiated in the brief English and French descriptions of the battle they commemorate inscribed on their sides and the small parks that surround the memorial blocks, which vary in shape and layout. At Dury, the memorial is situated symbolically where the Drocourt–Quéant Line crossed the Arras–Cambrai road. Breaking through at this point gave an expedited approach to the city of Cambrai, which fell just over a month later. Location and design The Canadian Dury Memorial site is south of the village of Dury, on the north side of the D939 Route Nationale, roughly halfway between the cities of Arras and Cambrai. The site is a modest square park (about 60 metres wide and deep) with tall, stately maple trees and a low hedge on the three sides away from the road surrounding well-kept lawns and the low circular flagstone terrace that the granite memorial block rests on in the centre of the park. The inscription on the memorial block at Dury reads: References External links Dury Memorial – Veteran's Affairs Canada Wikimapia satellite image of Dury Memorial site Canadian military memorials and cemeteries World War I in the Pas-de-Calais Monuments and memorials in the Pas-de-Calais Canada in World War I World War I memorials in France