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Marfaux Cemetery Marne France
Marfaux Cemetery Marne France
Marfaux was captured by the Germans in May 1918, and retaken, after severe fighting, on the 23rd July, by the 51st (Highland) and 62nd (West Riding) Divisions and the New Zealand Cyclist Battalion. The cemetery was begun after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields and from other Military Cemeteries in the Marne. There are over 1,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 300 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to eight soldiers from the United Kingdom known, or are believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 12 soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves could not be found. Ten of the New Zealand Cyclist Battalion who fell in July 1918, whose graves could not be found, are commemorated on a memorial erected in the shelter. The cemetery covers an area of 4,162 square metres and is enclosed on three sides by a low rubble wall. Some of those soldiers who died and are buried in Marfaux are recorded here in this community.
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Born 1887
Died 1918
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Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army 38334 Private Lincolnshire Regiment
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Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army 17541 Private Northamptonshire Regiment
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Born 1892
Died 1918
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force Attch. 2/6th South Shropshire Regiment
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps 1st/1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance
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Born 1882
Died 1918
British Army 40231 Sapper Royal Engineers 4th Field Squadron
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 136914 Private Machine Gun Corps
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Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army 89034 Private Royal Army Medical Corps
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Died 1918
British Army 35807 Private King's Shropshire Light Infantry 4th Battalion
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British Army 472205 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army T278 Sapper Royal Engineers
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