Grandcourt Road Cemetery was made in the spring of 1917 when the Ancre battlefield was cleared. The cemetery now contains 391 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 108 of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to one casualty known to be buried among them.
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Redan Ridge Cemetery No.2 is about 90 metres West of the old German front line. There are 279, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 124 are unidentified. All fell (with one exception) in July and November 1916, and belonged to the 4th, 29th and 2nd Divisions.
Munich Trench British Cemetery (originally V Corps Cemetery No.8) was named from a German trench captured by the 7th Division on 11 January 1917. The cemetery contains 126 First World War burials, 28 of them unidentified.
This picture of Beaumont-Hamel British Cemetery on the Somme was taken from Hawthorn Crater. The cemetery contains 179 burials of which 82 are unidentified.
There are 263 burials in Stump Road Cemetery on the Somme with 50 being unidentified.
Bois-Guillaume Communal Cemetery & Extension is located to the North of Rouen in France. Most of the 683 burials came from No.8 General Hospital, which was quartered at Bois-Guillaume in a large country house and grounds.
St. Sever Cemetery & Extension in Rouen, France contains 11,456 burials from World War One and 314 from World War Two. Most of burials are from several general hospitals which were located in and around the city of Rouen.
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