Monument to the Heroes of the Black Army, War memorial in Parc de Champagne, France

The Monument to the Heroes of the Black Army in Parc de Champagne is a bronze group of rifle-holding soldiers standing close together on a rectangular frame with a thick top beam, two side pillars and a flat base. The left pillar's inner face carries a relief of vertical planks crossed by a diagonal branch and a horizontal band; the right pillar is mostly plain with rough edges. Shadowy relief figures appear under the top beam, and lawn and trees show through the opening.

The original memorial was inaugurated in 1924 to honor the African soldiers who defended Reims during World War I. It was destroyed in 1940 and rebuilt as a faithful bronze reproduction, reinstalled in 2013.

The monument's name refers to the tirailleurs sénégalais, West African soldiers in the French colonial army. A committee led by General Louis Archinard, with Senegalese deputy Blaise Diagne as vice-president, raised funds from French communes and the Amis des Troupes Noires. The 1924 inauguration included a military and sports fete at the parc Pommery, attended by 10,000 people.

The memorial stands in Parc de Champagne, at the corner of Boulevard Henry Vasnier and Avenue du Général Giraud, and is easy to reach on foot. As it is an outdoor sculpture, it can be visited at any time and at no charge.

The 2013 bronze in Parc de Champagne is a copy after Moreau-Vauthier's lost group, but it stands on a different pedestal from the 1924 monument, whose granite base was shaped like a West African tata. Fragments of the original, dismantled by the German occupier in September 1940, are kept at the Fort de la Pompelle museum.