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Amiens |
When land on the Granite Belt was opened up for soldier settlement after the First World War, at the suggestion of surveyor Geo. D. Grant, battlefields where Australian forces had served in Europe were commemorated. Amiens was one of these. The first suggestion for the terminus of the new railway line was Mons St Quentin, but the name Mons was already taken. Diggerthorpe met with little enthusiasm. But Amiens won approval and so the city on the Somme River, in northern France that has a history going right back to the time of Julius Caesar (54 BC) who established his headquarters in the area during the Gallic War and which means ‘water dweller’ was commemorated, or rather the battle that Australian forces fought there.
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