| Barastre Communal Cemetery |
| Pas de Calais, France |
Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell
Barastre Communal Cemetery is on the north side of the village of Barastre, which is 6 kilometres south-east of the town of Bapaume.
Barastre was occupied by British troops in March, 1917, lost in March, 1918, and cleared by the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division on the following 5th September. There are now over 10, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. One of whom was buried by the Germans in 1916 and the remainder by their comrades in September, 1918. The German Extension has been removed, together with 225 German and four French graves from the Communal Cemetery itself.
Number of Identified Casualties: 15
Lieutenant Colonel
Frederick Hoysted Bradley DSO
Royal Army Medical Corps. Attd. 15th Field Ambulance.
22/09/1918, aged 34.
Son of the Rev. Canon W. H. and Mrs. Bradley, late of Monaghan, Ireland; husband of the late Ellen Lacey Hargreaves, of Liverpool.
Grave 10.
Burials by regiment:
| Royal Army Medical Corps 2 | Royal Field Artillery 2 |
| Royal Garrison Artillery 2 | N. Z. E. F. Wellington Regiment 1 |
| N. Z. E. F. Auckland Regiment 1 | N. Z. E. F. Rifle Brigade 1 |
| Rifle Brigade 1 | Machine Gun Corps (Inf.) 1 |
| Cheshire Regiment 1 | Devonshire Regiment 1 |
| Royal West Kent Regiment (Queen's Own) 1 | Royal Army Medical Corps 1 |
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