ASSEVILLERS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme
France
GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 49.89648, Longitude: 2.8425
Location Information
Assevillers is a village approximately 10 Kms south-west of Peronne.
Assevillers New British Cemetery will be found at the entrance of the village after crossing the A1 motorway and the high speed train line.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this cemetery is possible, but may be by an alternative entrance.
Historical Information
Assevillers was taken by the French in the autumn of 1916, evacuated by the Fifth Army on the 26th March, 1918, and retaken by the 5th Australian Division on the 28th August, 1918.
A number of cemeteries were made by the French troops at Assevillers, and in one ("E"), at the West end of the village, 13 soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried by Field Ambulances in February and March, 1917; they are now reburied in Fouquescourt British Cemetery.
Assevillers New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of the Somme and from other burial grounds, including:-
BARLEUX GERMAN CEMETERY, about 365 metres North-East of Barleux, in which ten Australian soldiers were buried by their comrades in August and September, 1918.
BOUCHAVESNES (or PERONNE ROAD) GERMAN CEMETERY, between Marrieres Wood and Bouchavesnes, in which seven South African soldiers and three from the United Kingdom were buried by the enemy in March, 1918. It was at Marrieres Wood that the South African Brigade was annihilated on the 24th March, 1918.
ESTREES-DENIECOURT GERMAN CEMETERY, between Estrees and Fay, where two Australian soldiers were buried by the enemy.
FOUCAUCOURT FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, at the South-West corner of the village, where four soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried in 1915 and 1917.
HIGHWAY CEMETERY, CAPPY, a French Military Cemetery midway between Cappy and Herbecourt, where six men of the R.H.A. and one Australian soldier were buried in August and September, 1918.
HYENCOURT-LE-GRAND GERMAN CEMETERY, made by the 61st Infantry Regiment on the Chaulnes-Marchelepot road, where two R.A.F. officers were buried in May, 1918.
KIBOKO WOOD CEMETERY, BIACHES, by a small copse between Biaches and Flaucourt, where 30 United Kingdom soldiers were buried by the 40th Division in February and March, 1917. All but one belonged to the Royal Warwicks, and twenty of these to the 1st/6th Battalion.
MISERY CHATEAU GERMAN CEMETERY, where 16 soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried by a German Field Hospital in March, 1918.
P.C. HEDEVAUX FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, 548 metres South of Belloy-en-Santerre, where ten soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried by their comrades in February and March, 1917. (P.C. means Poste de Commandement.)
PLANTATION CEMETERY, a French Military Cemetery in the large Orchard 914 metres East of Cappy, where one United Kingdom soldier was buried in February, 1917, and four Australian in August and September, 1918.
VAUVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY, in which four soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in March, 1918, were reburied.
VERMANDOVILLERS FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, at the West end of the village, where two United Kingdom soldiers were buried in March, 1917, by their comrades.
There are 817, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, two-fifths are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 25 soldiers and one airman from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of nine soldiers and two airmen from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
The cemetery covers an area of 2,655 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.
The cemetery covers an area of 2,655 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens & William Harrison Cowlishaw
Total Burials: 817.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 374, Australia 100, South Africa 8, Canada 2, France 1. Total 485.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 310, Australia 13, South Africa 8, Canada 1. Total 332.
Assevillers is a village approximately 10 Kms south-west of Peronne.
Assevillers New British Cemetery will be found at the entrance of the village after crossing the A1 motorway and the high speed train line.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this cemetery is possible, but may be by an alternative entrance.
Historical Information
Assevillers was taken by the French in the autumn of 1916, evacuated by the Fifth Army on the 26th March, 1918, and retaken by the 5th Australian Division on the 28th August, 1918.
A number of cemeteries were made by the French troops at Assevillers, and in one ("E"), at the West end of the village, 13 soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried by Field Ambulances in February and March, 1917; they are now reburied in Fouquescourt British Cemetery.
Assevillers New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of the Somme and from other burial grounds, including:-
BARLEUX GERMAN CEMETERY, about 365 metres North-East of Barleux, in which ten Australian soldiers were buried by their comrades in August and September, 1918.
BOUCHAVESNES (or PERONNE ROAD) GERMAN CEMETERY, between Marrieres Wood and Bouchavesnes, in which seven South African soldiers and three from the United Kingdom were buried by the enemy in March, 1918. It was at Marrieres Wood that the South African Brigade was annihilated on the 24th March, 1918.
ESTREES-DENIECOURT GERMAN CEMETERY, between Estrees and Fay, where two Australian soldiers were buried by the enemy.
FOUCAUCOURT FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, at the South-West corner of the village, where four soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried in 1915 and 1917.
HIGHWAY CEMETERY, CAPPY, a French Military Cemetery midway between Cappy and Herbecourt, where six men of the R.H.A. and one Australian soldier were buried in August and September, 1918.
HYENCOURT-LE-GRAND GERMAN CEMETERY, made by the 61st Infantry Regiment on the Chaulnes-Marchelepot road, where two R.A.F. officers were buried in May, 1918.
KIBOKO WOOD CEMETERY, BIACHES, by a small copse between Biaches and Flaucourt, where 30 United Kingdom soldiers were buried by the 40th Division in February and March, 1917. All but one belonged to the Royal Warwicks, and twenty of these to the 1st/6th Battalion.
MISERY CHATEAU GERMAN CEMETERY, where 16 soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried by a German Field Hospital in March, 1918.
P.C. HEDEVAUX FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, 548 metres South of Belloy-en-Santerre, where ten soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried by their comrades in February and March, 1917. (P.C. means Poste de Commandement.)
PLANTATION CEMETERY, a French Military Cemetery in the large Orchard 914 metres East of Cappy, where one United Kingdom soldier was buried in February, 1917, and four Australian in August and September, 1918.
VAUVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY, in which four soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in March, 1918, were reburied.
VERMANDOVILLERS FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, at the West end of the village, where two United Kingdom soldiers were buried in March, 1917, by their comrades.
There are 817, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, two-fifths are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 25 soldiers and one airman from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of nine soldiers and two airmen from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
The cemetery covers an area of 2,655 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.
The cemetery covers an area of 2,655 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens & William Harrison Cowlishaw
Total Burials: 817.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 374, Australia 100, South Africa 8, Canada 2, France 1. Total 485.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 310, Australia 13, South Africa 8, Canada 1. Total 332.
106029 Private
J. Y. Amps
Machine Gun Corps. (Infantry)
25th March 1918.
Plot IV. E. 7.
Son of Mr and Mrs Amps, Howes Close Farm, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.
J. Y. Amps
Machine Gun Corps. (Infantry)
25th March 1918.
Plot IV. E. 7.
Son of Mr and Mrs Amps, Howes Close Farm, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.
4994 Private
William Carratt
30th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
28th August 1918, aged 19.
Plot III. B. 2.
Son of William and Harriet S. Carratt, of "Park View," 56, Burwood Rd., Burwood, New South Wales. Born at Concord, New South Wales.
William Carratt
30th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
28th August 1918, aged 19.
Plot III. B. 2.
Son of William and Harriet S. Carratt, of "Park View," 56, Burwood Rd., Burwood, New South Wales. Born at Concord, New South Wales.
202836 Private
Phillip Churchill
1st/4th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
4th February 1917, aged 20.
Plot II. C. 5.
Son of Charles and Eliza Churchill, of Broadwindsor, Beaminster, Dorset.
Phillip Churchill
1st/4th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
4th February 1917, aged 20.
Plot II. C. 5.
Son of Charles and Eliza Churchill, of Broadwindsor, Beaminster, Dorset.
858 Corporal
Wilfred Morton Dobson
26th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
29th August 1918, aged 21.
Plot III. A. 9.
Son of Samuel Hildreth Dobson and Emma Amelia Dobson, of Pine Rd., Penguin, Tasmania.
Wilfred Morton Dobson
26th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
29th August 1918, aged 21.
Plot III. A. 9.
Son of Samuel Hildreth Dobson and Emma Amelia Dobson, of Pine Rd., Penguin, Tasmania.
725681 Gunner
Robert Crowhurst Griffiths
108th Bty. 23rd Bde. Royal Field Artillery
4th September 1918.
Plot XI. B. 7.
Robert Crowhurst Griffiths
108th Bty. 23rd Bde. Royal Field Artillery
4th September 1918.
Plot XI. B. 7.
400129 Private
Walter Hammond
2nd/5th Bn. Manchester Regiment
21st March 1918, aged 22.
Plot I. F. 9.
Son of Joseph and Emma Hammond, of 365, Victoria Terrace, Lowerhouse Lane, Burnley.
Walter Hammond
2nd/5th Bn. Manchester Regiment
21st March 1918, aged 22.
Plot I. F. 9.
Son of Joseph and Emma Hammond, of 365, Victoria Terrace, Lowerhouse Lane, Burnley.
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Second Lieutenant
Cecil Healy
19th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
29th August 1918, aged 34.
Plot II. F. 6.
Son of Patrick Joseph and Annie Louisa Healy, of 10, Bligh St., Sydney, New South Wales.
Warrant Officer Cecil Healy, the Australian Champion swimmer who was killed in action near Peronne on 29 August 1918. On 15 September 1915 Healy enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and after service as a quartermaster sergeant in the Army Service Corps in Egypt and France he transferred to the infantry officer school at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he swam, rowed, boxed and played rugby. On 1 June 1918 he was commissioned second lieutenant in the 19th (Sportsman's) Battalion and was killed in his first action. Healy won a gold medal at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm in the 4x200 m freestyle relay and a silver medal in the 100 m freestyle events. This slide is one of a series used in a 1917 recruiting campaign to encourage sportsmen to enlist in a sportsmen's unit, such as had been successfully raised in England. The concept was not as popular in Australia.
Cecil Healy
19th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
29th August 1918, aged 34.
Plot II. F. 6.
Son of Patrick Joseph and Annie Louisa Healy, of 10, Bligh St., Sydney, New South Wales.
Warrant Officer Cecil Healy, the Australian Champion swimmer who was killed in action near Peronne on 29 August 1918. On 15 September 1915 Healy enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and after service as a quartermaster sergeant in the Army Service Corps in Egypt and France he transferred to the infantry officer school at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he swam, rowed, boxed and played rugby. On 1 June 1918 he was commissioned second lieutenant in the 19th (Sportsman's) Battalion and was killed in his first action. Healy won a gold medal at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm in the 4x200 m freestyle relay and a silver medal in the 100 m freestyle events. This slide is one of a series used in a 1917 recruiting campaign to encourage sportsmen to enlist in a sportsmen's unit, such as had been successfully raised in England. The concept was not as popular in Australia.
1780 Corporal
John Wadham Morgan
13th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
19th August 1918, aged 25.
Plot III. B. 4.
Son of John Wadham Morgan and Sarah O'Brien; husband of F. Morgan. Born in New South Wales.
John Wadham Morgan
13th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
19th August 1918, aged 25.
Plot III. B. 4.
Son of John Wadham Morgan and Sarah O'Brien; husband of F. Morgan. Born in New South Wales.
21094 Private
Thomas Patrick Sharratt
1st/6th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
4th February 1917, aged 41.
Plot III. C. 1.
Husband of M. A. Sharratt, of Lower Gungate, Tamworth, Staffs.
Thomas Patrick Sharratt
1st/6th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
4th February 1917, aged 41.
Plot III. C. 1.
Husband of M. A. Sharratt, of Lower Gungate, Tamworth, Staffs.
The original fenced graves of 846 Lance Corporal Roy Stephen Kenyon MM of Broken Hill, NSW, and 2234 Corporal John Tomich MM of Port Pirie, SA, both of the 27th Battalion, killed in action 29 August 1918. Now buried at Assevillers New British Cemetery, Plot V. F. 2 and 3 respectively.
Holes in the remains of a factory boiler caused by shrapnel, Barleux, 20th September 1918. Barleux was retaken by 5th Australian Division on 29th August 1918. © IWM Q 9321
