Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery above Beaumony Hamel. February 2014
Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery above Beaumony Hamel looking south at dawn. February 2014
Beaumont-Hamel was captured in November 1916, in the Battle of the Ancre, and the graves in this cemetery are largely those of men who died at that time. The burials were carried out by the V Corps in the spring of 1917, after the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line.
Caption information from CWGC web site:
Waggon Road Cemetery (originally V Corps Cemetery No.10) contains 195 First World War burials (36 unidentified), 46 of them belonging to the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which attacked in the Ancre in both July and November 1916.
The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.
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