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Saturday, 15 January 2011 15:54

Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille

The Lonsdale Cemetery is where many of the 11th (Lonsdale) Battalion of the Border Regiment are buried.  They suffered very heavy casualties as they advanced on the Leipzig Redoubt from the sanctuary of Authuille Wood on 1 July 1916. 

Published in Ovillers, La Boisselle

A disused quarry surrounded by a row of poplars (upper centre) marks the extremity of what was the Liepzig Redoubt. 

Published in Thiepval