Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison

Written by Mike
Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison. 28 April 2002.  (Ref 02-26-34) Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison. 28 April 2002. (Ref 02-26-34)

The Sunken Road from which this cemeteries is named is part of the Contalmaison to Pozières road.  The site was formerly wooded.  Sunken Road Cemetery is in the Bois Défrichés.  The cemetery was made during July to October 1916.

Sunken Road Cemetery contains the graves of 148 Canadian and 61 Australian soldiers and five men of the Royal Artillery.  Three Australian and one Canadian are unidentified. 

Three Australian graves which cannot be located are represented by special memorials. 

The graves of two German soldiers buried by the Germans at the end of March 1918 have been removed. 

Sunken Road Cemetery covers an area of 1,210 square metres, without the access road.  A low red brick wall encloses it. 

Sunken Road Cemetery is approximately 1.5km north of Contalmaison, east of the road to Pozières.  The cemetery lies in the fields a little east of this road and is to the south of a farm track which approaches the cemetery.

Mike

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