Sucrerie Military Cemetery contains 1111 burials of which 226 are unidentified. The cemetery was begun by French troops in the early summer of 1915.
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Auchonvillers Military Cemetery on the Somme contains 528 burials of which 41 are unidentified. The cemetery was begun by French troops in June 1915.
Millencourt Communal Cemetery Extension contains 340 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, and five German burials.
Bouzincourt was used as a field ambulance station from early in 1916 to February 1917, when the Allied line went forward from the Ancre. It was in German hands for a few days in the spring of 1918. Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension contains 592 burials of which 108 are unidentified.
Forceville Communal Cemetery Extension, one of the first three Commission sites to be built after the First World war, was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and Charles Holden. Total burials 311.
There are 178 First World War burials in Hédauville Communal Cemetery Extension and two from the Second World War.. Total 180.
Louvencourt Military Cemetery, one of the first three Commission cemeteries to be built after the First World War, was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. The cemetery contains 230 burials including Roland Leighton, immortalised by Vera Brittain's memoir "Testament of Youth"
Acheux British Cemetery contains 180 commonwealth burials from World War One, 179 from the United Kingdom and 1 Canadian.
Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension contains 613 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 26 of the burials are unidentified and three graves, the exact locations of which could not be found, are represented by special memorials.
Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery now contains 711 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 313 of the burials are are unidentified and there is a special memorial to an officer of the 38th Division known to be buried in one of them.
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