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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. February 2014
Photograph from ridge high above Beaumont-Hamel looking south. Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery is in the foregound, on the left is Frankfurt Trench CWGC Cemetery and slightly down in the valley on the River Ancre on the right is Ancre British CWGC Cemetery Beaumont-Hamel. On the ridge on the south side of the River Ancre on what was the German front line is the Thiepval Memorial which has over 72,000 names of British and South African Soldiers who have no known grave, their remains either still lie out on the battlefield under the farmers fields or buried in CWGC cemeteries on the Somme but not named.
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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Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery above Beaumony Hamel. February 2014<br /> Photograph from ridge high above Beaumont-Hamel looking south. Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery is in the foregound, on the left is Frankfurt Trench CWGC Cemetery and slightly down in the valley on the River Ancre on the right is Ancre British CWGC Cemetery Beaumont-Hamel. On the ridge on the south side of the River Ancre on what was the German front line is the Thiepval Memorial which has over 72,000 names of British and South African Soldiers who have no known grave, their remains either still lie out on the battlefield under the farmers fields or buried in CWGC cemeteries on the Somme but not named.<br /> 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.<br /> Caption information from CWGC web site:<br /> 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.<br /> <br /> The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.
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