Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz

Written by Mike
Dantzig Alley British Cemetery from the southeast.  October 17, 1993.  (93/140/26) Dantzig Alley British Cemetery from the southeast. October 17, 1993. (93/140/26)

 

Dantzig Alley British Cemetery was begun in July 1916.  It was used by Field Ambulances and fighting units until the following November.  At the Armistice the cemetery consisted of 183 graves, but it was then increased by the concentration of 1,782 additional graves to bring it to its final total of 1,965 graves.

 

Dantzig Alley British Cemetery  contains the graves of 1,921 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 17 from New Zealand, 13 from Australia, ten from Canada and three from South Africa.  Five French and seven German graves have been removed to other cemeteries.  There are 518 unnamed graves.

Special memorials are erected to 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them.  Other special memorials record the names of 70 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from New Zealand buried in other cemeteries whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.

Dantzig Alley British Cemetery  also contains a plaque as the Memorial to the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Dantzig Alley British Cemetery is situated immediately east of Mametz on the north side of the D64 road to Montauban

 

Mike

Mike

Mike McCormac has been a photographer since about ten years old.  He's a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and lives in a village in the hills near Paphos in Cyprus.

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