Villers-Outréaux | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Villers-Outréaux 59.svg |
Arrondissement: | Cambrai |
Canton: | Le Cateau-Cambrésis |
Insee: | 59624 |
Postal Code: | 59142 |
Mayor: | Patrice Quévreux[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CA Caudrésis–Catésis |
Coordinates: | 50.0342°N 3.3011°W |
Elevation M: | 135 |
Elevation Min M: | 113 |
Elevation Max M: | 147 |
Area Km2: | 7.09 |
Villers-Outréaux (in French pronounced as /vilɛʁ utʁeo/) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[2]
A German airbase was in the town in WW-I.
In September 2018 the villagers of Villers-Outréaux dedicated an especially commissioned memorial to commemorate British soldier Jack Williams (VC), (Victoria Cross), to express their thanks for helping to save their village from certain destruction, in 1918