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Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.2

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There are 214 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.2 comprising 190 from the United Kingdom and 24 from Newfoundland. There are 67 unknown graves in the cemetery. The great majority fell on the 1st July, 1916, 5 October 2002. (Ref 0203754) There are 214 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.2 comprising 190 from the United Kingdom and 24 from Newfoundland. There are 67 unknown graves in the cemetery. The great majority fell on the 1st July, 1916, 5 October 2002. (Ref 0203754)

Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.2 is located in what was no mans land on 1 July 1916 between the British and the German front lines.

The front lines were situated on a ridge of high ground called the Auchonvillers Spur running in a south-easterly direction. A hawthorn tree was growing on this high ground and so the ridge became known as Hawthorn Ridge by the British Army when it moved in to occupy the front line here in August 1915.

Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.2 was made by the V Corps (as V Corps Cemetery No.12) in the spring of 1917, and seven isolated graves were brought in after the Armistice.

There are 214 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.2 comprising 190 from the United Kingdom and 24 from Newfoundland. There are 67 unknown graves in the cemetery. The great majority fell on the 1st July, 1916.

Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.2 covers an area of 1,019 square metres and it is enclosed by a low stone rubble wall.

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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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