13. Rumilly-en-Cambrésis
Not liberated during the Battle of Cambrai, Rumilly has been destroyed.
During the course of the Battle of Cambrai the British never managed to seize control of Rumilly behind the Hindenburg Line. On 20th November 1917, the soldiers’ advance was blocked at Masnières, while on the following day the German infantry’s armour-piercing shells took care of the few tanks approaching from Marcoing. Rumilly was laid waste but was rebuilt after the war. Its church now houses remarkable canvasses by Lucien Jonas.
