ALLONVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme
France
GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 49.94122, Longitude: 2.36903
© Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Allonville is a village in the Department of the Somme, 8 kilometres north-east of Amiens, on the D919 Amiens to Contay road.
Take the D247 to the village of Allonville (1 kilometre), then the Rue de la Marie just out of the village.
Historical Information
The communal cemetery was used from August 1916 to February 1917 by the 39th Casualty Clearing Station then posted at Allonville, and from April to July 1918, by Australian fighting units.
The cemetery contains 78 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There is also one Second World War burial.
Casualty Details: UK 38, Australia 40, Total Burials: 78.
Allonville is a village in the Department of the Somme, 8 kilometres north-east of Amiens, on the D919 Amiens to Contay road.
Take the D247 to the village of Allonville (1 kilometre), then the Rue de la Marie just out of the village.
Historical Information
The communal cemetery was used from August 1916 to February 1917 by the 39th Casualty Clearing Station then posted at Allonville, and from April to July 1918, by Australian fighting units.
The cemetery contains 78 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There is also one Second World War burial.
Casualty Details: UK 38, Australia 40, Total Burials: 78.
2240 Private
Robert Delaney
14th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
31st May 1918, aged 21.
Row B. 6.
Son of Thomas and Maria Delaney, of Nirranda, Victoria, Australia.
Robert Delaney
14th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
31st May 1918, aged 21.
Row B. 6.
Son of Thomas and Maria Delaney, of Nirranda, Victoria, Australia.
Lieutenant
Herbert Victor Masters
1st Anzac Wireless Section, Australian Engineers
15th April 1918.
Row C. 5.
Son of James Bell Masters and Eliza Masters; husband of M. Masters, of "Denbigh," 13, Stafford St., Stanmore, Sydney, New South Wales. Native of Sydney.
Herbert Victor Masters
1st Anzac Wireless Section, Australian Engineers
15th April 1918.
Row C. 5.
Son of James Bell Masters and Eliza Masters; husband of M. Masters, of "Denbigh," 13, Stafford St., Stanmore, Sydney, New South Wales. Native of Sydney.
The original graves of two members of the 12th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps (AASC) at Allonville Communal Cemetery, France. (Now buried in Row C. 3 & 2 respectively).
From left to right: 3383 Private (Pte) Frederick Reeve Chamberlain, and 14016 Corporal (Cpl) Clyde Raymond Stevenson MM. Cpl Stevenson was a photographer of Prahran, Vic prior to enlisting on 2 March 1916 as a member of the 3rd Australian Casualty clearing Station and sailed on HMAT Medic from Melbourne on 20 May 1916. Both men were killed in action at Amiens, France, on 10 July 1918, when they were hit by a shell while carrying wounded at Amiens.
The Military Medal was awarded to Cpl Stevenson posthumously on 27 November 1918, for 'conspicuous bravery' in carrying wounded over a long and dangerous route during a heavy bombardment at Millencourt in April 1918.
This photograph is from an Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau file. The Bureau, which commenced operation in October 1915, sought to identify, investigate and respond to enquiries made regarding the fate of Australian personnel. It investigated the majority of personnel posted as wounded and missing on official Army lists, as well as written enquiries from concerned relatives and friends. Approximately 32,000 individual case files were opened for Australian personnel who were reported as wounded or missing during the First World War. The Bureau employed searchers to operate both at the front and in Britain. They searched official lists of wounded and missing, interviewed comrades of missing soldiers in hospitals and wrote to men on active service. Altogether 400,000 responses were sent back to those who placed enquiries with the Bureau. (c. 1919)
From left to right: 3383 Private (Pte) Frederick Reeve Chamberlain, and 14016 Corporal (Cpl) Clyde Raymond Stevenson MM. Cpl Stevenson was a photographer of Prahran, Vic prior to enlisting on 2 March 1916 as a member of the 3rd Australian Casualty clearing Station and sailed on HMAT Medic from Melbourne on 20 May 1916. Both men were killed in action at Amiens, France, on 10 July 1918, when they were hit by a shell while carrying wounded at Amiens.
The Military Medal was awarded to Cpl Stevenson posthumously on 27 November 1918, for 'conspicuous bravery' in carrying wounded over a long and dangerous route during a heavy bombardment at Millencourt in April 1918.
This photograph is from an Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau file. The Bureau, which commenced operation in October 1915, sought to identify, investigate and respond to enquiries made regarding the fate of Australian personnel. It investigated the majority of personnel posted as wounded and missing on official Army lists, as well as written enquiries from concerned relatives and friends. Approximately 32,000 individual case files were opened for Australian personnel who were reported as wounded or missing during the First World War. The Bureau employed searchers to operate both at the front and in Britain. They searched official lists of wounded and missing, interviewed comrades of missing soldiers in hospitals and wrote to men on active service. Altogether 400,000 responses were sent back to those who placed enquiries with the Bureau. (c. 1919)
2491 Private
John Claude Mills
14th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
31st May 1918, aged 26.
Row B. 18.
Son of William and Sarah Ann Mills, of 78, Kerr St., Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Native of Bruthen, Victoria.
John Claude Mills
14th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
31st May 1918, aged 26.
Row B. 18.
Son of William and Sarah Ann Mills, of 78, Kerr St., Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Native of Bruthen, Victoria.
5757/A Private
George Ray
14th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
31st May 1918, aged 29.
Row B. 15.
Son of Edward and Alice Ray, of 131, Cowper St., Footscray, Victoria, Australia. Native of Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria.
George Ray
14th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
31st May 1918, aged 29.
Row B. 15.
Son of Edward and Alice Ray, of 131, Cowper St., Footscray, Victoria, Australia. Native of Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria.
Allonville Communal Cemetery near Amiens, France. One of the men buried there is 2240 Private Robert Delaney (below), 4th Light Horse Regiment. Delaney was killed on 31 May 1918 when a German bomb exploded in the barn in which he was sleeping. The barn collapsed, killing and wounding many members of the 14th Battalion who were billeted there. Delaney's grave is that marked by a white shield shaped marker, and other names are also recorded on it.
20th June 1918. Three unidentified Australians in a field of flowers at Allonville. This richly green countryside, ablaze with bright red poppies was a favourite rest area of the Australian troops on coming out for a spell from the Somme fighting.
17th May 1918; An infantry field cooker team resting in a billet yard at Querrieu, after the review of the 3rd Division at Allonville.
German prisoners playing chess being watched by a soldier from the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Querrieu, October 1916. © IWM (Q 1598)
Allonville, France. 21 June 1918. Group portrait of some of the original members of the 5th Field Ambulance. Positions shown in image below; Back row, left to right: 2887 Private (Pte) A. H. R. Smart (1); 2780 Sergeant (Sgt) Jas H. Downie (2); 2791 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) W. Lawrence (3); 3008 Driver (Dvr) T. C. Macartney (4); Dvr W. Stone (5); 2893 Dvr R. Steward (6); 2831 Dvr R. E. Campling (7); 2935 Dvr E. McLeod (8); 2860 L Cpl J. Sanders (9); 2907 Pte R. McMorran (10); 2783 Cpl J. A. Atkins (11); 2844 Dvr C. S. Johnston (12); 2852 Sgt D. Smith (13); 2850 Dvr R. H. L. Manfred (14); 3890 Dvr E. Allen (15); 2898 Sgt T. Windram (16); 3885 L Cpl S. B. Bragg (17); 2904 Pte W. O. Fordyce (18). Third row (standing): 2845 Sgt J. W. Melville (19); 2987 Dvr W. E. Davidson (20); 3897 Pte J. J. Dudgeon (21); 2953 L Cpl A. Forrest MM (22); 2961 Dvr H. W. Robertson (23); 2807 Corporal (Cpl) B. C. Barwick MM (24); 2795 Pte A. J. McCaffery (25); 2824 Pte H. M. Rice (26); 2906 Cpl D. Bluett (27); 3904 Dvr J. A. McGann (28); unidentified (29); 1851 Sgt Oswald Albert Cropley DCM (30); L Cpl P. Lawler (31); 2905 L Cpl S. Bailey (32); 2963 Pte E. Libthorpe (33); 2848 L Cpl W. J. Giddey (34); 3826 Pte C. J. Searle MM (35); 2916 Pte C. Catt MM (36); 3882 L Cpl C. L. Hall (37); 2882 Sgt G. S. Noakes (38); 2810 Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant (RQMS) C. Griffiths (39); 3883 Sgt P. D. Conners (40); 2842 Cpl H. J. Franklow MM (41); 2889 Cpl R. Barr-Smith (42); 2978 L Cpl C. H. Montague (43); 8884 Dvr Harry William Hipe (44). Second row (sitting): 2876 Pte J. O'Sullivan (45); 2989 Cpl J. M. Curtis (46); 2828 Warrant Officer (WO) A. Tysoe MSM (47); 2868 Sgt J. Morris (48); 2917 Cpl A. Potter (49); 2890 Cpl W. J. Somers (50); 3003 Cpl R. L. Wilson (51); Captain C. James (52); 2782 L Cpl H. G. McCaffery MM (53); Lieutenant Colonel W. E. L. H. Crowther (54); 2820 Dvr M. M. Manfred (55); Lieutenant (Lt) Collins (56); 2930 Dvr L. Gledhill (57); 2920 Pte H. Benson MM (58); 2801 Pte W. F. James (59); 2816 Pte R. D. McCaffery (60); 2925 Dvr S. G. Paul (61); 2896 Cpl L. Whittaker (62); 3881 Pte C. L. Slender (63). Front row (on ground): 2785 Cpl F. W. Bennett (64); 2941 L Cpl H. J. Farrell (65); 2841 Pte E. J. Matthews (66); 2869 RQMS F. A. Dransfield MM (67); 3893 Sgt F. A. Segur (68); 2966 RQMS J. T. G. Brown (69); 2892 Staff Sergeant S. G. Jeffes MM (70); 2879 Sgt C. O. Power MM (71); 2793 Dvr R. Court (72); Lt G. H. Long MM MSM (73); 2946 WO C. M. Coppin MSM (74); 2855 Pte Archibald Potter Burchall (75); 2996 Dvr O. Peterd (76); 2857 Pte S. V. D. Bowd (77)(Killed in action 10 August 1918); 2837 Pte B. W. B. Carver (78); 3905 Sgt A. N. Robertson (79); 2874 Dvr F. P. O'Keefe (80); Lt C. Warburton (81); 2781 Sgt F. B. Spicer (82); 2928 Dvr R. E. Hayward MM (83).
