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AGNY MILITARY CEMETERY
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Pas De Calais

​France


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.
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 291, Germany 5. Total 296. 
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The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and
William Harrison Cowlishaw

Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

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

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



Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

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The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
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    • MARNE
    • NORD
    • OISE
    • PAS DE CALAIS
    • SEINE-ET-MARNE
    • SEINE-MARITIME
    • SOMME
    • OTHER FRENCH DEPARTMENTS
    • FRENCH NON COMMONWEALTH CEMETERIES
    • French Memorials
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  • Shot at Dawn
  • Victoria Cross
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