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Aveluy Wood Cemetery (Lancashire Dump) is situated by the side of the Albert to Hamel road at the northern boundary of Aveluy Wood in the village of Mesnil-Martinsart.

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Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:40

Authuille Military Cemetery, Thiepval

Authuille is 5km north of Albert.  Authuille Military Cemetery is on the south side of the village, between the road to Albert and the River Ancre

Authuille was held by British troops from the summer of 1915 to March 1918, when it was captured in the German Offensive on the Somme.  As a village, it was ruined by shellfire even before that date.

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Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:31

Blighty Valley Cemetery, Thiepval

‘Blighty Valley’ was the name given by the Army to the lower part of the deep valley running south westwards through Authuille Wood to join the river between Authuille and Aveluy.  For some time it was an important (though inevitably a dangerous) route.  The upper part of the valley was called ‘Nab Valley’.  Blighty Valley Cemetery is almost at the mouth of the valley, a little way up its northern bank. 

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Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:21

Martinsart British Cemetery, Thiepval

Martinsart British Cemetery is located on the southern edge of Martinsart on the north side of the road to Aveluy.

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Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension is on the road between Mesnil and Martinsart, near the northwest corner of Aveluy Wood.  The cemetery is situated in a valley among cultivated fields. 

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Saturday, 24 July 2010 15:11

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.

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Saturday, 24 July 2010 15:00

Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval

Mill Road Cemetery is located in fields near the 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial. 

Mill Road Cemetery was started in 1917 when the area was cleared after the fighting during the summer and autumn of 1916.  The cemetery was expanded after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from other cemeteries in the area.

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Saturday, 17 April 2010 09:39

Gommecourt British Cemetery No.2

Gommecourt British Cemetery No.2 is situated 1km south east of Gommecourt, on the north side of the minor road between Hébuterne and Bucquoy.

Many of those from the 56th (London) Division killed at Gommecourt are buried in Gommecourt British Cemetery No.2. 

A typical cemetery is surrounded by a masonry wall with wrought iron gates at the entrance. In larger sites a historical notice gives an account of the conflict in which those commemorated in the cemetery died and the history of the cemetery.  A register for the cemetery is also likely to be found within a bronze register box.