and wounded in taking Mons were sacrificed for not a strategic, but a symbolic objective. The allegations even appeared in print in newspapers run by Hughes' family which led to Currie launching and winning a libel lawsuit against Hughes' son Garnet and others after the war. Currie successfully argued that he had been ordered to capture Mons by his superiors, that much of the town had been captured when the Armistice was announced at 6:30 am on the 11th, and that the war's end was not a certainty until the enemy finally stopped shooting. Legacy and memorials Three war memorials stand in commemoration of the actions of the Canadian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive. The Le Quesnel Memorial commemorates the 1918 Battle of Amiens The Dury Memorial commemorates the Battle of the Scarpe (1918) and the Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line The Bourlon Wood Memorial commemorates the final series of battles of the war including the Battle of the Canal du Nord and the Pursuit to Mons. The Canadian Corps liberation of Mons is commemorated on a plaque that is on display in the entrance of the City Hall of Mons, just off of the Grand Place. It reads: <div style="text-align: center;">"Mons was recaptured by the Canadian Corps on the 11th November 1918. After fifty months of German occupation freedom was restored to the city. Here was fired the last shot of the Great War." See also List of Canadian battles during World War I References Footnotes Bibliography Further reading u Military history of Canada during World War I