BRAY MILITARY CEMETERY
Bray-sur-Somme
Somme
France
General Directions: Bray-sur-Somme is a village about 9 kilometres south-east of Albert. Bray Military Cemetery is north of the village, a little west of the road to Maricourt.
The cemetery was begun in April 1916 by fighting units and field ambulances. In September 1916, the front line having been pushed further east, it was used by the XIV Corps Main Dressing Station and in 1917, the 5th, 38th and 48th Casualty Clearing Stations came forward and used it. In March 1918, the village and the cemetery fell into German hands, but were retaken by the 40th Australian Battalion on 24 August, and during the next few days the cemetery was used again. After the Armistice graves were brought in to Plot I, Rows AI and BI, and Plot II, Rows J and K, from the battlefields immediately north and south of the village and in 1924, further isolated graves (Plot III) were brought in.
Shot at Dawn: Plot 2. K. 11. Corporal J Wilton of the 15th Sherwood Foresters, executed on 17/8/1916 for quitting his post.
Casualty Details: UK 825, Canada 3, Australia 31, South Africa 2, India 13, Total Burials: 874
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Second Lieutenant Hubert Stephen Slepowron De Jastrzebski 24th Bn. London Regiment 05/04/1917, aged 22. Son of Thaddeus Theodore and Frances Elizabeth Slepowron de Jastrzebski, of "Kirklees," 102, Avondale Rd., South Croydon, Surrey. Plot II. H. 59.
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