BEAUREVOIR COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Aisne
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.99278, Longitude: 3.31789
Location Information
Beaurevoir is a village in the north-eastern corner of the Department of the Aisne, midway between Cambrai and St Quentin (approximately 19 kilometres north of St. Quentin).
Beaurevoir Communal Cemetery and British Extension is situated on the D28 in the direction of Montbrehain. It is first signposted by the square in front of the church and then again at the road fork of the D28 and D716.
Historical Information
The village of Beaurevoir was attacked by the 2nd Australian Division on the 3rd October, 1918, and taken by the 25th Division on the 5th.
Beaurevoir Communal Cemetery contains, in the South-West part, the graves of four soldiers from the United Kingdom buried by the enemy in 1914 and 1917. A German Extension was formed on the North side, from which, after the Armistice, 510 German graves were removed to Maissemy-Vadencourt German Cemetery and 70 British to Beaurevoir British Cemetery
Burial Details
241452 Private R. Cooper, 2/5th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, died 11th April 1917.
8841 Private G. A. Prince, 2nd Bn. Essex Regiment, died 2nd September 1914.
241559 Corporal William Sawyer, 2nd/5th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, died 12th April 1917, aged 24. Son of William and Deborah Mary Sawyer, of 32, Trafalgar Rd., Newport, Isle of Wight.
242062 Private Clifford Mortimer Tavner, 2nd/5th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, died 12th April 1917, aged 33. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Tavner, of Woolwich, Kent; husband of Harriet Elizabeth P. Tavner of 38, Warwick Rd., Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
Beaurevoir is a village in the north-eastern corner of the Department of the Aisne, midway between Cambrai and St Quentin (approximately 19 kilometres north of St. Quentin).
Beaurevoir Communal Cemetery and British Extension is situated on the D28 in the direction of Montbrehain. It is first signposted by the square in front of the church and then again at the road fork of the D28 and D716.
Historical Information
The village of Beaurevoir was attacked by the 2nd Australian Division on the 3rd October, 1918, and taken by the 25th Division on the 5th.
Beaurevoir Communal Cemetery contains, in the South-West part, the graves of four soldiers from the United Kingdom buried by the enemy in 1914 and 1917. A German Extension was formed on the North side, from which, after the Armistice, 510 German graves were removed to Maissemy-Vadencourt German Cemetery and 70 British to Beaurevoir British Cemetery
Burial Details
241452 Private R. Cooper, 2/5th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, died 11th April 1917.
8841 Private G. A. Prince, 2nd Bn. Essex Regiment, died 2nd September 1914.
241559 Corporal William Sawyer, 2nd/5th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, died 12th April 1917, aged 24. Son of William and Deborah Mary Sawyer, of 32, Trafalgar Rd., Newport, Isle of Wight.
242062 Private Clifford Mortimer Tavner, 2nd/5th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, died 12th April 1917, aged 33. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Tavner, of Woolwich, Kent; husband of Harriet Elizabeth P. Tavner of 38, Warwick Rd., Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
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