Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Four Cemeteries above Beaumont Hamel. February 2014

Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Four Cemeteries above Beaumont Hamel. February 2014
Left to Right in photograph: New Munich Trench, Waggon Road, Munich Trench, Frankfurt Trench CWGC Cemeteries all lie on a plateau above Beaumont Hamel on the Somme Battlefield. The British dead were buried in old German front line trenches, hence the German names.

Caption Information from CWGC web site.
NEW MUNICH TRENCH and MUNICH TRENCH:
Beaumont-Hamel was attacked again and taken on the 13th November 1916, by the 51st (Highland) and 63rd (Royal Naval) Divisions.

Munich Trench was occupied by the 51st (Highland) Division on the 15th November 1916; New Munich Trench was dug on the previous night by the 2/2nd Highland Field Company and a company of the 8th Royal Scots, and lengthened by the 8th Devons in December.

The cemetery was made by the V Corps in the spring of 1917, when their units cleared the battlefield, and it was known also as V Corps Cemetery No.25.

There are now nearly 150, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, almost 20 are unidentified. All fell in the period November 1916, or January 1917, and the majority belonged to the 10/11th, 16th or 17th Highland Light Infantry.

WAGGON ROAD:
Waggon Road was the name given to the road running north of the village of Serre.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.

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.

FRANKFURT TRENCH:
Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery is named from a German trench about 1.6 kilometres North-Eas

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Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Four Cemeteries above Beaumont Hamel. February 2014<br />
Left to Right in photograph: New Munich Trench, Waggon Road, Munich Trench, Frankfurt Trench CWGC Cemeteries all lie on a plateau above Beaumont Hamel on the Somme Battlefield. The British dead were buried in old German front line trenches, hence the German names.<br />
<br />
Caption Information from CWGC web site.<br />
NEW MUNICH TRENCH and MUNICH TRENCH:<br />
Beaumont-Hamel was attacked again and taken on the 13th November 1916, by the 51st (Highland) and 63rd (Royal Naval) Divisions.<br />
<br />
Munich Trench was occupied by the 51st (Highland) Division on the 15th November 1916; New Munich Trench was dug on the previous night by the 2/2nd Highland Field Company and a company of the 8th Royal Scots, and lengthened by the 8th Devons in December.<br />
<br />
The cemetery was made by the V Corps in the spring of 1917, when their units cleared the battlefield, and it was known also as V Corps Cemetery No.25.<br />
<br />
There are now nearly 150, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, almost 20 are unidentified. All fell in the period November 1916, or January 1917, and the majority belonged to the 10/11th, 16th or 17th Highland Light Infantry.<br />
<br />
WAGGON ROAD:<br />
Waggon Road was the name given to the road running north of the village of Serre.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 />
<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. <br />
<br />
FRANKFURT TRENCH:<br />
Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery is named from a German trench about 1.6 kilometres North-Eas