Sambre–Oise Canal

Funding has been put in place by the owner, Voies Navigables de France, and the local authorities, with support from the State.

[2] The Sambre–Oise Canal saw one of the last Allied victories of World War I before the Armistice with Germany which came into effect at 11.00 am on 11 November 1918.

Participating in the operation were the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex, as well as the 2nd Manchesters, to which the poet Wilfred Owen belonged.

Some Royal Sussex Regiment men actually climbed up onto the lock gates, one of them firing his Lewis gun from the hip as he went.

Eventually the British managed to take the lockhouse and pushed on to their final objective near the Étreux road.