AUSTRALIA will help fund new memorial facilities and walking trails in Somme to highlight one of the nation's greatest military achievements in World War I.
Veterans Affairs Minister Warren Snowdon announced in Paris on Monday an initial 200,000 euros ($A254,000) in funding for the latest stage of the Australian Remembrance Trail project on the Western Front.
An equal funding partnership with French authorities will provide two walking trails and a new "interpretive room" at the Museum of the Great War in Peronne, France to complement an existing memorial at Mont St Quentin.
Mr Snowdon said the room would help tell the story of the 2nd Australian Division's capture of Mont St Quentin on September 1, 1918, considered Australia's most important victory of the war.
The Australian Remembrance Trail will link sites of the most significant Australian battles of the war including Ypres and Zonnebeke in Belgium, and Fromelles, Bullecourt, Pozieres, Le Hamel and Villers-Bretonneux in France.
"This is about us building this historical trail so that Australians can come and visit here, go to the battle sites and understand what happened," Mr Snowdon told AAP.
"They can also get an appreciation of the communities which now host these memorial sites and understand how we've developed very deep and long-lasting relationships with those communities as a result of the service of Australian personnel and their sacrifice."
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