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enjoyable climb up to 8%

The battle of Fromelles on 19 July 1916 was a bloody initiation for Australian soldiers to warfare on the Western Front. Soldiers of the newly arrived 5th Australian Division, together with the British 61st Division, were ordered to attack strongly fortified German front line positions near the Aubers Ridge in French Flanders. The attack was intended as a feint to hold German reserves from moving south to the Somme where a large Allied offensive had begun on 1 July. The feint was a disastrous failure. Australian and British soldiers assaulted over open ground in broad daylight and under direct observation and heavy fire from the German lines. Over 5,500 Australians became casualties. Almost 2,000 of them were killed in action or died of wounds and some 400 were captured. This is believed to be the greatest loss by a single division in 24 hours during the entire First World War. Some consider Fromelles the most tragic event in Australia’s history. https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/fromelles

The castle of the Dalle-Dumont family, le Château Blanc, was occupied by the Germans from August 1914 to October 1918 as a German field hospital 'Feldlazarett Nr. 9. Adolf Hitler was treated there during the night of 13 to 14 October 1918 and remained there convalescing until the Armistice. This is where the wounded soldiers of the Heuvelland front between Ypres and the French-Belgian border are cared for. Soldiers who die of their wounds are buried in the park of the castle. https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/140728/Ch%C3%A2teau-Blanc-Wervicq-Sud.htm https://www.wervicq-sud.com/tourisme/le-chateau-et-parc-dalle-dumont/

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Nice and spicy climb!

Easier side of Kemmelberg, but don't start too hard and leave some energy to the last part, which kicks just before the top.

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