ANZAC CEMETERY
Sailly-Sur-La-Lys
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
The Cemetery is on the north-west side of the road between Armentieres and Bethune, the D945, just north of the village Sailly-sur-la-Lys.
Historical Information
Sailly Church was burnt during the open fighting of October 1914, when French cavalry and British and German infantry fought on the Lys, but from the winter of 1914-1915 to the spring of 1918 the village was comparatively untouched. It was captured by the Germans on 9 April 1918, and it remained in their hands until the beginning of September.
Anzac Cemetery was begun by Australian units in July 1916, immediately before the Attack at Fromelles, and it contains the graves of many Australian soldiers who died in that engagement. It continued in use as a front-line cemetery until April 1918 and was used by German troops for the burial of Commonwealth soldiers during the following summer.
Anzac Cemetery contains 320 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. 62 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to seven casualtes known or believed to be buried among them, and to three soldiers buried by the Germans in Sailly Churchyard whose graves could not be located. It also contains five Second World War burials and six German graves.
Casualty Details: UK 201, Australia 111, New Zealand 8, Total Burials: 320.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker
The Cemetery is on the north-west side of the road between Armentieres and Bethune, the D945, just north of the village Sailly-sur-la-Lys.
Historical Information
Sailly Church was burnt during the open fighting of October 1914, when French cavalry and British and German infantry fought on the Lys, but from the winter of 1914-1915 to the spring of 1918 the village was comparatively untouched. It was captured by the Germans on 9 April 1918, and it remained in their hands until the beginning of September.
Anzac Cemetery was begun by Australian units in July 1916, immediately before the Attack at Fromelles, and it contains the graves of many Australian soldiers who died in that engagement. It continued in use as a front-line cemetery until April 1918 and was used by German troops for the burial of Commonwealth soldiers during the following summer.
Anzac Cemetery contains 320 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. 62 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to seven casualtes known or believed to be buried among them, and to three soldiers buried by the Germans in Sailly Churchyard whose graves could not be located. It also contains five Second World War burials and six German graves.
Casualty Details: UK 201, Australia 111, New Zealand 8, Total Burials: 320.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker
Lieutenant General
Robert George Broadwood, C. B., 4 x times Mentioned in Despatches
General Staff Cdg. 57th Division late 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
21st June 1917, aged 55.
Plot II. I. 6.
Order of Osmanieh (4th Class) award.
Robert George Broadwood, C. B., 4 x times Mentioned in Despatches
General Staff Cdg. 57th Division late 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
21st June 1917, aged 55.
Plot II. I. 6.
Order of Osmanieh (4th Class) award.
Second Lieutenant
G. P. Holland
Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attd. 7th Bn. Norfolk Regiment
18th March 1918.
Plot III. A. 11
G. P. Holland
Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attd. 7th Bn. Norfolk Regiment
18th March 1918.
Plot III. A. 11
909 Private
Percy Edwin Ings
8th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps.
20th July 1916, aged 23.
Plot I. B. 2.
Son of Edwin and Emma Ings, of Breadalbane, New South Wales. Native of Goulburn, New South Wales.
Picture courtesy of nephew, Paul Ings
Percy Edwin Ings
8th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps.
20th July 1916, aged 23.
Plot I. B. 2.
Son of Edwin and Emma Ings, of Breadalbane, New South Wales. Native of Goulburn, New South Wales.
Picture courtesy of nephew, Paul Ings
