Albert
Albert was the hub of all Allied activity during the Battle of the Somme.
Albert was heavily bombarded, but superstition had it that while the virgin remained on top of the Basilique’s tower, Albert would not be captured by the Germans.
Albert is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France. It is located about halfway between Amiens and Bapaume.
Albert Communal Cemetery
Written by Mike
Albert Communal Cemetery contains a total of 889 graves of which 20 are unknown. There are 25 graves dating from the Second World War. Five graves which were destroyed by shellfire are now represented by special memorials.
Brigadier General Henry Frederick Hugh Clifford, DSO, commanding officer of the 149th Brigade of the Suffolk Regiment is buried in Albert Communal Cemetery.
Bapaume Post Military Cemetery
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Bapaume Post Military Cemetery contains a total of 410 graves comprising 327 graves of soldiers from the UK (including 27 known and 78 unknown from the Northumberland Fusiliers), 64 Canadians, 18 Australians and one South African.
Bécourt Military Cemetery
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Bécourt Military Cemetery contains a total of 712 graves comprising 606 from the United Kingdom, 72 from Australia, 31 (nearly all Artillerymen) from Canada and three from South Africa. There are eight unnamed graves. A special memorial is erected to a soldier from the United Kingdom buried in one of the graves.
Norfolk Cemetery
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Norfolk Cemetery contains a total of 549 graves comprising 407 from the United Kingdom, nine from Australia, three from South Africa, two from Canada, one from New Zealand, one from India and 125 whose unit is not known. There are 224 unnamed graves in the cemetery.
Major Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand, V.C.
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Major Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand V.C., 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment is buried in Norfolk Cemetery. He died 1 July 1 1916, aged 36.
Shot at Dawn
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Two graves in Norfolk Cemetery are of two privates ‘shot at dawn’ on 26 June 1916 just before the start of the Somme offensive.
Dartmoor Cemetery
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Dartmoor Cemetery contains a total of 768 graves of which six are unknown. The total number of graves comprises 633 from the United Kingdom, 71 from Australia, 59 from New Zealand, four from Canada and one from India.
Private J Miller, VC
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Private J Miller VC of the 7th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment who died July 30, 1916 aged 26 is buried in Dartmoor Cemetery.
Father and Son
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In adjoining graves in Plot I, Row A of Dartmoor Cemetery are buried a father and son, who served in the same battery, and were killed in action on the same day.
Lieutenant Henry Webber
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Lieutenant Henry Webber, the oldest known battle death of the First World War is buried in Dartmoor Cemetery.
Méaulte Military Cemetery
Written by Mike
Méaulte Military Cemetery contains the graves of 283 soldiers from the United Kingdom, six from India, two (including one airman) from Canada, one from Australia, and seven whose unit is unknown. There are 21 unknown graves.
Grove Town Cemetery, Méaulte
Written by Mike
Grove Town Cemetery contains a total of 1,392 graves, comprising 1,364 from the United Kingdom, 14 from Australia, 12 from Canada and one from New Zealand. There is one unknown grave in the cemetery.
