Monument Cecil Healy

On Sept. 1, 2018, exactly 100 years after his death, the monument to Lieutenant Cecil Healy was unveiled at the New British Cemetery at Assevillers.

As a lieutenant in the 19th Sportsman Battalion of AIF (Australian Imperial Force), he led an attack on the Somme in which Mont St. Quentin was captured; in the process he was fatally struck by a bullet.

Cecil Healy was an Australian swimmer who invented the side-breathing technique during crawl swimming. He won individual bronze at the 1906 Olympics and silver at the Stockholm Olympics. With the Australian team, he won gold in the 4 x 200m.

The cemetery is located just outside the village near the A1 underpass

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar, Francky de Rous
• Photos: Francky de Rous