The memorial is an obelisk within a fenced area and stands prominently on a ridge north of the Somme River.

On the high country above Sailly–le–Sec is the 3rd Australian Division Memorial. Built in 1919-1920, it commemorates the action of the division around this village.

From this spot, on the morning of 27 March 1918 the leading battalions of the division marched up towards the village of Heilly. Their task was to occupy an old French defensive line between the river Ancre in the north and the Somme in the south, roughly between the villages of Mericourt–L’Abbé and Sailly–le–Sec. The Germans were in the sixth day of a rapid advance that had begun on 21 March 1918. This massive German attack had quickly breached the British lines near St Quentin to the east. Their plan was to push rapidly westwards, capture the city of Amiens and then cut off the British armies in the north from their French allies in the south. The Germans had initially swept all before them and the British began to retreat across the famous 1916 battlegrounds of the Somme.

To relieve the weary British, fresh divisions, including the Third Division, were rushed from the north to stem the German advance west of Albert.

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D42 Meaulte and D1 Corbie Roads., Sailly-le-Sec, France.

3rd Division Memorial is located at Sailly-le-Sec, near Albert, on a ridge north of the Somme River. The Memorial can be reached from Albert by the D42 Meaulte and D1 Corbie Roads.