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More pictures to Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery in France. There are 49, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 16 are unidentified. Almost all these soldiers belonged either to the 15th West Yorkshire Regiment, which held out at Moyenneville for thirty-six hours in March, 1918, or to the Guards Divisions, who re-took the ground in August. 
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More pictures added to Warry Copse Cemetery in France. The cemetery contains 40 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, two of which are unidentified.  More pictures added to Sunken Road Cemetery at Boisleux-St. Marc in France. The cemetery contains 416 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, two of them unidentified, and four German war graves.  7 more pictures added to Railway Cutting Cemetery in France, courtesy of Johan Pauwels. The cemetery contains 108 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 16 of the burials are unidentified but a special memorial commemorates one casualty believed to be buried among them.  We have 8 pictures of Quesnoy Farm Military Cemetery in France. Quesnoy Farm Military Cemetery contains 60 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.  9 more pictures added to Mory Abbey Military Cemetery in France, courtesy of Johan Pauwels. Mory Abbey Military Cemetery contains 619 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. 101 of the burials are unidentified, but there is a special memorial to one casualty known to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains 230 German burials.  8 more pictures added to L'Homme Mort British Cemetery in France including 3 pictures of the adjoining Memorial to Captain Pulteney Malcolm. The cemetery contains 166 burials of the First World War, 104 of them unidentified.  11 more pictures added to H. A. C. (Honourable Artillery Company) Cemetery, Écoust-St. Mein in France, courtesy of johan Pauwels. There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over half are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 14 from Australia, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 34 soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.  11 pictures of Sillery French National Cemetery in France courtesy of Nicholas Philpot. The Nécropole Nationale de Sillery – Bellevue, to the south-east of Reims close to the river Vesle, is a large and typical French military cemetery. Laid out in 1923-33, it contains the bodies of 11,259 French soldiers, of whom 5,548 are in an ossuary.  6 more added to Rossignol Wood Cemetery in France, courtesy of Johan Pauwels. The cemetery contains 41 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, two of them are unidentified. There are also 70 German war graves, 42 being unidentified.  |
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The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
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