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Mailly Wood Cemetery, Mailly-Maillet, Somme, France
Mailly Wood Cemetery, Mailly-Maillet, Somme, France
Mailly Wood Cemetery, Mailly-Maillet, Somme, France. Mailly-Maillet was within the line taken over from the French in the summer of 1915, and several Commonwealth cemeteries were made in the commune. Mailly Wood Cemetery was begun with the burial of thirteen men of the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders who died on 25 June 1916, and in November 1916, the 51st (Highland) Division buried in it following the capture of Beaumont Hamel. Thereafter, the cemetery was little used until April-August 1918, when the German attack on Amiens brought the front line very close, and further burials were made by the 12th Division (in May) and the 21st (in August), among others. After the Armistice graves from the battlefields immediately north-east of the village were brought into the cemetery, and 30 graves from MAILLY MAILLET MILITARY CEMETERY in the village itself. The cemetery now contains 702 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 60 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to two casualties whose graves in the cemetery could not be found, and to six whose graves in the military cemetery were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
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Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Lancaster Regiment attached Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
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Born 1882
Died 1916
British Army 265462/1811 Lance Corporal Seaforth Highlanders
British Army Captain Seaforth Highlanders 6th seaforth highland Battalion
British Army Captain Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 6147 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 8th Battalion
British Army 3491 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 9th Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 2292 Private Seaforth Highlanders
British Army 2292 Lance-Corporal Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army 6227 Private Seaforth Highlanders 5th Battalion
British Army 2765 Private Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 1711 Private Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 2757 Private Seaforth Highlanders
British Army 2757 Lance Corporal Seaforth Highlanders
More about William Cassels -
Died 1916
British Army 8163 Lance Corporal Seaforth Highlanders
British Army 8163 Serjeant Seaforth Highlanders 2nd Battalion
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Died 1916
British Army 1726 Private Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army 9075 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers
British Army 53659 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers
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Born 1891
Died 1916
British Army 1443 Private Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers 2nd/2nd (Highland) Field Company
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Died 1916
British Army 3676 Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army 20600 Private Border Regiment 1st Battalion
More about William Steele Barnes