Hunter’s Cemetery

Written by Mike
Soldiers of the 51st (Highland) Division who fell in the capture of Beaumont-Hamel were buried in a shell hole that became Hunter's Cemtery after the battle, 5 October 2002.  (Ref 0203758) Soldiers of the 51st (Highland) Division who fell in the capture of Beaumont-Hamel were buried in a shell hole that became Hunter's Cemtery after the battle, 5 October 2002. (Ref 0203758)

Hunter's Cemetery (the origin of the name may refer to a Chaplain attached to the Black Watch, the Rev. Hunter) is built in what was a huge shell-hole – hence it’s unusual circular shape.

Soldiers of the 51st (Highland) Division who fell in the capture of Beaumont-Hamel were buried in a shell hole that became Hunter's Cemtery after the battle.

In Hunter’s Cemetery there are 46 graves of soldiers of the 51st (Highland) Division who were killed during the capture of Beaumont-Hamel.  There are four unknown graves in the cemetery.

The Cross of Sacrifice in the middle of Hunter’s Cemetery is mounted in the middle of a metre high block of stone with headstones around the edges of the stone block.

Hunter’s Cemetery is enclosed by a low rubble stone wall.

Hunter's Cemetery is located in the northern part of Beaumont-Hamel Memorial Park.

Mike

Mike

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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