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Warlencourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Warlencourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Warlencourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France - Warlencourt, the Butte de Warlencourt and Eaucourt-L'Abbaye were the scene of very fierce fighting in 1916. Eaucourt was taken by the 47th (London) Division early in October. The Butte (a Roman mound of excavated chalk, about 17 metres high, once covered with pines) was attacked by that and other divisions, but it was not relinquished by the Germans until the following 26 February, when they withdrew to the Hindenburg Line. The 51st (Highland) Division fought a delaying action here on 25 March 1918 during the great German advance, and the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division recaptured the ground on 25 August 1918. The cemetery was made late in 1919 when graves were brought in from small cemeteries and the battlefields of Warlencourt and Le Sars. The largest burial ground moved into this cemetery was:- HEXHAM ROAD CEMETERY, LE SARS, on the West side of the Abbey grounds. (Hexham Road was the name given to the road leading from Warlencourt to Eaucourt. Le Sars was captured by the 23rd Division on 7 October 1916, and again by the Third Army on 25 August 1918.) This cemetery was used from November 1916 to October 1917, and contained the graves of 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 13 from Australia. The cemetery now contains 3,505 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,823 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 55 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 15 casualties buried in Hexham Road Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
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Died 1916
British Army 4930 Private London Regiment 23rd lond Battalion
British Army 701840 Private London Regiment 23rd lond Battalion
British Army 4930 Private London Regiment 23rd Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1916
South African Services 3564 Corporal 4th South African Infantry Fought at Delville Wood
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Died 1916
British Army S/6777 Private Seaforth Highlanders 7th Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1916
South African Services 8910 Private 1st South African Infantry
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Died 1916
South African Services 2179 Sergeant 2nd South African Infantry Wounded at Delville Wood, D.C.M.
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Born 1898
Died 1916
South African Services 5431 Private 4th South African Infantry
More about James Martin Morton -
Born 1897
Died 1916
South African Services 7907 Private 4th South African Infantry
More about Gordon Raymond Pater -
Died 1916
South African Services 7464 Private 2nd South African Infantry Fought at Delville Wood
More about Martin Adams -
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 10829 Private Royal Fusiliers 17th (S) Bn.
British Army G/18240 Private Royal West Kent Regiment 11th Bn.
More about Joseph Brown Knight -
Died 1916
British Army 5494 Private London Regiment 7th lond Battalion
British Army 352358 Private London Regiment 7th lond Battalion
More about Augustus Allcroft -
Born 1898
Died 1916
British Army 3570 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment
More about Frank Aldridge -
Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army 2512 Private Yorkshire Regiment 1/4th east Battalion
British Army 2512 Serjeant Yorkshire Regiment 1/4th east Battalion
British Army 2512 Serjeant East Yorkshire Regiment
More about Emil Agerskow -
Died 1916
British Army 30601 Private Yorkshire Regiment
British Army 9/7230 Private Durham Light Infantry
More about William Alderson -
Born 1897
Died 1916
South African Services 5616 Private 2nd South African Infantry Fought at Delville Wood
More about William Oswald Lake -
Born 1898
Died 1916
British Army S/13095 Private Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) 1st Battalion
British Army S/13095 Private Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) 8th Battalion
More about Arthur Crawford Allen -
Born 1891
Died 1916
South African Services 8485 Private 2nd South African Infantry
More about Alfred George Vincent -
Born 1892
Died 1916
South African Services 3192 Private 2nd South African Infantry Fought at Delville Wood
More about Edward Cecil Babb -
Died 1918
British Army 204409 Warrant Officer Class 2 Northumberland Fusiliers
More about Albert E Alderson -
Born 1894
Died 1916
South African Services 6961 Private 2nd South African Infantry Fought at Delville Wood
More about Edward James Vincent