Avesnes-le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension is located in the Pas De Calais region of France. The village of Avesnes-le-Comte was for some time the VI Corps headquarters. The 37th and 30th Casualty Clearing Stations were there from April 1916, the 42nd in June 1916, and the 41st in January 1917. The communal cemetery contains 2 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, both made in April 1916. Thereafter, burials were made in the extension, which contains 333 graves, 4 of which are unidentified. Most of these were from the 37th CCS which stayed in the village until July 1917. Total burials 337.
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Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension is located in the Pas De Calais region of France. Before March, 1916, Aubigny was in the area of the French Tenth Army, and 327 French soldiers were buried in the Extension to the West of what is now Plot IV. From March 1916 to the Armistice, Aubigny was held by Commonwealth troops and burials were made in the Extension until September 1918. Total burials 3067.
There are now 1,970 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Courcelette British Cemetery. 1,174 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to nine casualties five believed to be buried among them.
Regina Trench Cemetery now contains 2,280 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,077 of the burials are unidentified, but there are special memorials to 14 casualties believed to be buried among them. One American airman is also buried in the cemetery.
New Munich Trench British Cemetery was made by the V Corps in the spring of 1917, when their units cleared the battlefield, and it was known also as V Corps Cemetery No.25. There are 146, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these,18 are unidentified. All fell in the period November 1916, or January 1917, and the majority belonged to the 10/11th, 16th or 17th Highland Light Infantry.
Waggon Road Cemetery (originally V Corps Cemetery No.10) contains 195 First World War burials (36 unidentified), 46 of them belonging to the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which attacked in the Ancre in both July and November 1916.
Ten Tree Alley Cemetery was made by the V Corps in 1917 and it stood beside a former German trench, captured by the 32nd Division on the night of the 10th-11th February 1917. There are 67, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 24 are unidentified.
There are 154, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in Redan Ridge Cemetery, No. 1, of these, 73 are unidentified.
On our recent visit to Redan Ridge Cemetery, No. 3, the Cross of Sacrifice was missing due to an accident. The cemetery contains 67 U. K. burials of which 34 are unidentified.
Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery is named from a German trench about 1.6 kilometres North-East of the village, which remained in enemy hands until the German retreat early in 1917. The cemetery was made by the V Corps after that retreat, when their units cleared the Ancre battlefield, and it was known also as V Corps Cemetery No.11. There are 161, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 34 are unidentified.
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