Mons - War Museum

(Local Name: Musée de Guerre) The War Museum occupies two stories. On the ground floor the First World War is commemorated, especially the British regiments which near Mons on August 23 and 24, 1914 stopped the Germans who were proceeding in the direction of Paris. The museum on the third floor is dedicated to the Second World War and the liberation of Mons by American troops on September 2, 1944.

Canadian troops reached Mons on the morning of 11 November, 1918.