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Sucrerie Military Cemetery

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Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps. The gaps in the rows of headstones are the consequence of the removal of 285 French and 12 German graves from the cemetery to other burial sites. April 29, 2002. (02-29-17) Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps. The gaps in the rows of headstones are the consequence of the removal of 285 French and 12 German graves from the cemetery to other burial sites. April 29, 2002. (02-29-17)

Sucrerie Military Cemetery is named after a ‘sucrerie’ or sugar beet factory. 

Sucrerie Military Cemetery was begun by French troops in the early summer of 1915.  It was extended to the west by British units from July 1915 right through with intervals to December 1918. 

Sucrerie Military Cemetery was initially called the 10th Brigade Cemetery. 

Until the German retreat of March 1917 it was rather more than a mile from the front line.  From March 1918 (when the New Zealand Division engaged in the fighting at Sucrerie) to the following August it was under fire.
 
Later 285 French graves and twelve German graves were removed and in consequence there are gaps in the rows.  There are special memorials to seven UK soldiers thought to be buried in the cemetery.
 
Sucrerie Military Cemetery is set amongst gently undulating farmland north of Auchonvillers.

Sucrerie Military Cemetery Fact Panel

Country Known Graves Unknown Graves Total Graves
United Kingdom 800 167 967
New Zealand 62 3 65
Australia 13 15 28
South Africa 8 24 32
Canada 3 10 13
  886 219 1,105
Area 6,322 square metres
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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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