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BEAUMETZ COMMUNAL CEMETERY 
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​Cartigny

​Somme

​France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.90458, Longitude: 3.04593
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Location Information

Beaumetz is a hamlet within the Commune of Cartigny, which is 8 kilometres south-south-east of Peronne. The cemetery is situated at the east end of the village. Four Commonwealth war graves of the 1914-1918 war lie towards the rear of the cemetery.

Casualties: United Kingdom 3, Canada 1. Total 4.


Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny
Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny
Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny
Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny
Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny
Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny
Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny
Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny
Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny
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Second Lieutenant 
Lionel Latimer Clark
Leistershire Battery and Royal Horse Artillery, attached to 60th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps
2nd August 1916, aged 18.
 

Only son of Lyonel E. and Annie Jane Clark, of "Briarholme", Bourne End, Bucks.

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Lieutenant 
John Anthony Ormsby
Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade attached to 60th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps 2nd August 1916. 

Son of John and Susie Ormsby, of "Knockmore", Forest Hill Rd., Toronto, Canada.

His headstone bears the inscription "In His Presence There Is Fulness Of Joy"




Other Burial Details

Second Lieutenant Henry Joseph Newton, 60th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and Cheshire Regiment, died 2nd August 1916, aged 19. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Newton, of Hampstead, London. Formerly Lt. 12th London Regt. (The Rangers), previously wounded at Ypres, May, 1915. His headstone bears the inscription "He Sacrificed His Life Yet Will Ever Live In Our Memories"

2260 Serjeant Alexander Walker, 60th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, died 2nd august 1916, aged 22. Son of William and Margaret Walker, of Toll House, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. His headstone bears the inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man This"


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