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ALBUERA CEMETERY

​Bailleul-Sire-Bethoult 
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Pas De Calais

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.33973, Longitude: 2.84008

Albuera Cemetery
Location Information

The village of Bailleul-sire-Bethoult is 8 kilometres north-east of Arras and the Cemetery is west of the village.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access with some difficulty.
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Historical Information

Bailleul-Sire-Berthoult was occupied by the 2nd Division on 13 April 1917 and Albuera Cemetery was made in April-November 1917 by fighting units; the origin of its current name is not known and it was often called Bailleul Military Cemetery. The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Arras. It is divided into two plots, called (exceptionally) North and South.

Albuera Cemetery contains 253 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 110 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 15 casualties known to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains one German war grave.

Total Burials: 254.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 143, Germany 1. Total 144.

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 110.

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13/46 Private
J. H. Brock
13th Bn. 
East Yorkshire Regiment
29th April 1917, aged 26.
South B. 4.

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Son of Joseph Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Brock; husband of Ethel Brock, of 10, Albert's Terrace, Green Lane, Hull.

His headstone bears the inscription "Duty Done"


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Lieutenant
Philip Townsend Crowther
211th Field Company, 
Royal Engineers
5th May 1917, aged 33.
North A. 2.

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Only son of John Herbert and Hannah Elizabeth Crowther, of The Wood, Fixby, Huddersfield.

His headstone bears the inscription "Now In Thy Splendour Go Before Us Spirit Of England"

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31708 Private
John William Gartside
13th Bn. 
York and Lancaster Regiment
29th June 1917, aged 25.
South D. 13.


Son of Fred and Sarah Mary Lawson Gartside, of 20, Croft House, Lindley, Huddersfield.



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28619 Private
Howarth Ratcliffe Green
13th Bn. 
East Yorkshire Regiment
29th April 1917, aged 38.
South B. 3.


Son of William and Jane Green, of Oldham; husband of Beatrice Green, of 32, Philip St., Barnoldswick, Colne, Lancs.

His headstone bears the inscription "Till We Meet Again"




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77687 Air Mechanic
Reginald Harold Hickling
13th Squadron, 
/ShipRoyal Flying Corps
7th May 1917.
South C. 1.




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Picture © Werner Van Caneghem
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Captain
Lewis Dudley Richard Huggard
13th Bn.
pYork and Lancaster Regiment
26th June 1917, aged 23.
South C. 11.


Son of the Rev. Richard Huggard and Frances Marion Huggard, of St. John's Vicarage, Barnsley. Born at Dungannon, Co. Tyrone.

His headstone bears the inscription "Behind The Veil... They Live And Move And Work With Nobler Powers"


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927 Corporal
Robert Roberts
13th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
30th June 1917, aged 24.
Plot. South D.16.

Below are images of the original cross and grave of Robert Roberts
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Pictures courtesy of Anne Roberts

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39971 Private
H. A. "Harry" Stones
13th Bn. 
York and Lancaster Regiment
15th June 1917, aged 29.
South A. 21.


Son of William and Alice Stones, of Ilkley, Yorks; husband of Alice Maude Stones, of 3, Charlton Rd., Levenshulme, Manchester.

His headstone bears the inscription "Worthy Of Everlasting Love & Remembrance From His Loving Wife & Son"




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230415 Private
John William Woodnutt (Sitting)
2nd Bn. 
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
27th May 1917.
​South A. 17.




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c. 1917. German prisoners of war captured by the Canadian Army carrying one of their wounded through the village of Willerval.
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German gun emplacement on the north side of Vimy Ridge at Thelus, 1920. © IWM (Q 37282)
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Canadians advancing through German wire entanglements - Vimy Ridge. April, 1917. (Library and Archives, Canada)

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