The opening of this memorial park was part of a series of events that commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War I.

A guard of honour was provided by the French 43rd Infantry Regiment, and the Australian 10th/27th Battalion, and the opening of the memorial park was attended by hundreds from Australia and France.

[2][3] Cobbers is a prominent 1998 sculpture by Peter Corlett of Sergeant Simon Fraser[note 1] rescuing a wounded compatriot from No Man's Land after the battle.

[5] The title comes from a letter that Fraser, a farmer from Byaduk, Victoria, wrote a few days after the battle and that was widely quoted in Australia's official history of World War I.

He was about 14 stone weight, and I could not lift him on my back; but I managed to get him into an old trench, and told him to lie quiet while I got a stretcher.