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BAGNEUX BRITISH CEMETERY

​Gezaincourt
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Somme

​France


​GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.1343, Longitude: 2.31407​
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Bagneux British Cemetery
Location Information

Gezaincourt is a village situated 2 Kms to the south-west of the town of Doullens. Bagneux British Cemetery lies to the south of the village. There is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost in Gezaincourt village opposite the "Chateau" entrance.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access is possible to the cemetery with some difficulty.


Historical Information

At the end of March, the 3rd, 29th and 56th Casualty Clearing Stations moved to Gezaincourt, where they were joined for a short time in April by the 45th. They remained until September. The cemetery was begun in April 1918, after the close of the German offensive in Picardy. The 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital, in the citadel at Doullens, also buried in this cemetery in May and June 1918, and the 2nd Canadian Division in April and May. The graves in Plot III, Row A relate to a bombing raid over Doullens on 30 May 1918. 

There are 1,374 servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery.

Total Burials: 1,374.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 1,142, New Zealand 181, Canada 46, Australia 1, India 1. Total 1371.

Unidentified Casualties: 3.
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The cemetery was designed by
Sir Edwin Lutyens and George Hartley Goldsmith
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Cemetery images in gallery below © Geerhard Joos

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A female mourner by the grave of Private Artie D. Ledbetter of the "A" Company, 12th Regiment, French Engineers at the cemetery at Bagneux, 11 November 1920.
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October/November 1916: View of the camp of the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Gezaincourt

Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

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French and British soldiers and German prisoners having their wounds dressed by nurses at No. 29 Casualty Clearing Station at Gezaincourt, 27 April 1918.
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A Sopwith Camel biplane of the Royal Flying Corps in flight at Beauval, 30 July 1918. © IWM Q 70046
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Group of pilots of No. 32 Squadron RFC, Beauval, 1916 (Fourth Army aircraft park). Behind them is an Airco DH.2 (De Havilland Scout) biplane with Monosoupape Rotary Engine. © IWM Q 11874

Nearby Cemeteries
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Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery
Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension
Candas Communal Cemetery


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