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Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France
Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France
To honour those buried and remembered at Aubigny Communal Cemetery extension, Pas de Calais, France. - Before March, 1916, Aubigny was in the area of the French Tenth Army, and 327 French soldiers were buried in the Extension to the West of what is now Plot IV. From March 1916 to the Armistice, Aubigny was held by Commonwealth troops and burials were made in the Extension until September 1918. The 42nd Casualty Clearing Station buried in it during the whole period, the 30th in 1916 and 1917, the 24th and 1st Canadian in 1917 (during the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps) and the 57th in 1918. The Extension now contains 2,771 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and seven from the Second World War. There are also 227 French burials made prior to March 1916, and 64 German war graves. The Extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
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Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army 374112 Rifleman London Regiment 2/8th (City of London) Battalion (Post Office Rifles)
British Army 374112 Rifleman Rifle Brigade 13th Battalion
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Born 1875
Died 1917
British Army 26231 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 2nd Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army S/40468 Private Royal Highlanders 8th Bn
British Army S/40468 Private Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) 9th Battalion
British Army 2860 Private Royal Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 3767 Driver Royal Garrison Artillery 26th Heavy Battery
British Army 12509 Driver Royal Field Artillery 1st Division, Anti-Aircraft Artillery
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Born 1889
Died 1916
British Army 3389 Acting Corporal Gordon Highlanders
British Army 3389 Corporal Gordon Highlanders 4th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 1857 Private Seaforth Highlanders
British Army 265493 Private Seaforth Highlanders 1/6th Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 1567 Private Seaforth Highlanders 1/6th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 241961 Private Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-Shire Buffs) 5th Battalion
British Army 6220 Private Seaforth Highlanders 5th Battalion
British Army 3236 Private Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army 9951 Private 1st Royal Scots
British Army 9951 Serjeant Royal Scots 11th Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army S/10457 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 10th Battalion
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