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Hamel Military Cemetery, Thiepval

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Hamel Military Cemetery, Thiepval Hamel Military Cemetery, Thiepval

Hamel Military Cemetery was begun by fighting units and Field Ambulances in August 1915, and carried on until June 1917.  A few further burials were made in Plot II, Row F after the capture of the village in 1918.

Hamel Military Cemetery was known at times by the names of ‘Brook Street Trench’ and ‘White City’.

Hamel Military Cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of 48 graves from the immediate neighbourhood.

Hamel Military Cemetery now contains the graves of 487 soldiers from the United Kingdom, one New Zealand soldier and four German prisoners. There are 78 unknown graves in the cemetery.

Special memorials are erected to four soldiers from the United Kingdom thought to be buried among them.

A number of French and German military graves have been removed to other burial grounds. One German soldier is commemorated with a special cross.

The cemetery covers an area of 2,235 square metres.

Buried in the cemetery is Sergeant James Hamilton Murray, DSM who was twice Mentioned in Despatches. He served with DeaL/200(S) Divisional Engineers, Royal Naval Division, Royal Marine Engineers and was killed in action on November 14, 1916 aged 32. He was the son of the Hon. Huntly Gordon (nee Bushby) of Alloa.

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