BARASTRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Barastre Communal Cemetery is on the north side of the village of Barastre, which is 6 kilometres south-east of the town of Bapaume.
History Information
Barastre was occupied by British troops in March, 1917, lost in March, 1918, and cleared by the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division on the following 5th September. There are now over 10, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. One of whom was buried by the Germans in 1916 and the remainder by their comrades in September, 1918. The German Extension has been removed, together with 225 German and four French graves from the Communal Cemetery itself.
Picture © Barry Cuttell
Barastre Communal Cemetery is on the north side of the village of Barastre, which is 6 kilometres south-east of the town of Bapaume.
History Information
Barastre was occupied by British troops in March, 1917, lost in March, 1918, and cleared by the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division on the following 5th September. There are now over 10, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. One of whom was buried by the Germans in 1916 and the remainder by their comrades in September, 1918. The German Extension has been removed, together with 225 German and four French graves from the Communal Cemetery itself.
Picture © Barry Cuttell
Lieutenant Colonel
Frederick Hoysted Bradley, D. S. O.
Royal Army Medical Corps. Attd. 15th Field Ambulance.
22nd September 1918, aged 34.
Grave 10.
Son of the Rev. Canon W. H. and Mrs. Bradley, late of Monaghan, Ireland; husband of the late Ellen Lacey Hargreaves, of Liverpool.
Frederick Hoysted Bradley, D. S. O.
Royal Army Medical Corps. Attd. 15th Field Ambulance.
22nd September 1918, aged 34.
Grave 10.
Son of the Rev. Canon W. H. and Mrs. Bradley, late of Monaghan, Ireland; husband of the late Ellen Lacey Hargreaves, of Liverpool.
