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AGNY MILITARY CEMETERY
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Pas De Calais

​France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.26589, Longitude: 2.75394

Agny Military Cemetery
Picture © Johan Pauwles

​Location Information

Agny is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais immediately south of Achicourt. The Military Cemetery is north-west of the main part of the village across the River Crinchon.
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The Cemetery is on the outskirts of Agny, on the left hand side of the Achicourt-Wailly road (D3) coming from Arras. It is 4.75 Kms south-south-west of Arras Railway Station. 


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty.


Historical Information

Agny Military Cemetery was begun by French troops, and used by Commonwealth units and field ambulances from March 1916 to June 1917. Two further burials were made in April 1918, and in 1923-24, 137 graves were brought in from the battlefields east of Arras. The 40 French graves have been removed.

Agny Military Cemetery contains 408 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 117 of them unidentified, and five German graves.

Total Burials: 413.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 290, Germany 5. Total 295. 

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 117, Australia 1. Total 118.
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The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and
William Harrison Cowlishaw
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Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

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5495 Bombardier
Percy J. Bartlett
"Y" 14th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
16th May 1916.
Row B. 15.

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Second Lieutenant
A. Geofrey Beville
16th Bn. 
London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
8th April 1917.
Row G. 48.

His headstone bears the inscription "Till In The Ocean Of Thy Love We Lose Ourselves In Heav'n Above"




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7388 Rifleman 
Harry Edward Burnham
1st/16th Bn. 
London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
8th April 1917, aged 35.
Row G. 59.


Only son of William and Elizabeth Burnham (formerly Woodward), of Fulmer, Bucks.; husband of Alice Emma Burnham, of 47, Gordon Avenue, St. Margaret's, Middx.

His headstone bears the inscription "Dearly Loved Only Son And A Devoted Husband And Father"



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235200 Private
Richard Jacob Firth
2nd Bn. 
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
3rd May 1917.
​Row A. 2.




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Second Lieutenant
Gordon Amhurst Forsyth
8th Bn. 
Royal Fusiliers
27th August 1916, aged 28.
Row E. 37.

Son of David Cadenhead Forsyth and Thomasina Forsyth, of London; husband of Edith M. A. Forsyth, of 23, Pembury Rd., Lower Clapton, London. Member of the Stock Exchange, London.

His headstone bears the inscription "In Sweet And Loving Memory Of My Husband"




Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

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Second Lieutenant
Hugh Palliser Frend
6th Bn. 
Northamptonshire Regiment
20th March 1917, aged 20.
Row F. 3.


Son of the Rev. Canon John Palliser Frend and Monica Ann Frend, of Collingtree Rectory, Collingtree, Northampton.

His headstone bears the inscription "I Thank My God Upon Every Remembrance Of You" Phil. 1.3.




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Second Lieutenant
Richard Greenland
1st/9th Bn. 
Durham Light Infantry
13th April 1917, aged 25.
Row H. 44/57.

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Son of Richard Parker Greenland and Clara Beatrice Greenland, of 58, Dukes Avenue, Muswell Hill, London. Enlisted with 6th Bn. The King's Liverpool Regt. Aug 1914.

His headstone bears the inscription "He Trod The Path Of Duty A Volunteer Of August 1914"



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Second Lieutenant
Robert Henry Hose
2nd Bn. 
Bedfordshire Regiment
18th March 1917, aged 29.
Row G. 9.

Son of Robert John and Victoria Rosina Hose; husband of G. F. Nicholls (formelly Hose), of 18, Severn Rd., Weston-super-Mare.



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5619 Private
H. J. Nott
6th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
5th March 1917.
Plot E. 13.

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4256 Rifleman
Arthur Deane Punchard
"D" Company, 1st/16th Bn. 
London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
8th April 1917, aged 27.
Row G. 54.


Son of Charles Deane Punchard and Ellen Caroline Punchard, of 42, Lightcliffe Rd., Palmers Green, London.

His headstone bears the inscription "Our One Hope To Be Held Worthy"




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