Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, Somme, France. Harbonnieres was captured by French troops in the summer of 1916. It was retaken by the Germans on 27 April 1918, and regained by the Australian Corps on 8 August 1918. Heath Cemetery, so called from the wide expanse of open country on which it stands, was made after the Armistice, next to a French Military Cemetery, now removed. Graves were brought into it from the battlefields between Bray and Harbonnieres and from other burial grounds in the area. The earliest date of death is September 1915, the latest October 1918, but the majority died in March or August 1918. There are now 1,860 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 369 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 26 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 21 casualties buried in other cemeteries, whose graves could not be found. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
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Born 1879
Died 1917
British Army 8/6059 Private Durham Light Infantry 1/8th Battalion
Born 1872
Died 1918
Australian Imperial Force Lieutenant Colonel 36th Battalion
Born 1880
Died 1918
Australian Imperial Force Captain Australian Infantry 3rd Battalion
Born 1888
Died 1918
Australian Imperial Force 565
Australian Imperial Force 11th Battalion
Australian Imperial Force Lieutenant Australian Infantry 11th Battalion
Born 1887
Died 1918
Australian Imperial Force 401 Private Australian Machine Gun Corps 1st Machine Gun Battalion