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Mailly-Maillet Communal Cemetery Extension

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Mailly-Maillet Communal Cemetery Extension, Mailly-Maillet. The cemetery covers an area of 1,038 square yards. April 27, 2002. (02-25-04) Mailly-Maillet Communal Cemetery Extension, Mailly-Maillet. The cemetery covers an area of 1,038 square yards. April 27, 2002. (02-25-04)

Mailly-Maillet was comparatively a very quiet place until the British retreat at the end of March 1918.  The village remained in British hands but was severely shelled and the underground catacombs were prepared for use by the troops.

Mailly-Maillet Communal Cemetery Extension was begun by French troops (mainly engineers) in June 1915. 

Mailly-Maillet Communal Cemetery Extension was taken over by British forces in August 1915.  It was used by field ambulances and fighting units until December 1916, and again between March and July 1918.

51 French graves and the graves of two German prisoners were removed to other cemeteries. 

Mailly-Maillet Communal Cemetery Extension covers an area of 1,038 square yards.  It contains the graves of 122 soldiers from the UK, three from New Zealand and one from Newfoundland.

The extension was designed by W C Von Berg.

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Mike McCormac has been a photographer since about ten years old.  He's a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and lives in a village in the hills near Paphos in Cyprus.

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