Five Points Cemetery was made by the 53rd Field Ambulance and the 18th Casualty Clearing Station, which were posted near the site. Total burials 101 of which 3 are unidentified.
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Euston Road Cemetery at Colincamps on the Somme contains 1,293 burials. The cemetery was started as a front line burial ground during and after the unsuccessful attack on Serre on 1 July 1916.
There are 85, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in Serre Road Cemetery No. 3 who fell in July and November 1916. Of these, 48 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to four men who are known or believed to be buried among them.
Sucrerie Military Cemetery contains 1111 burials of which 226 are unidentified. The cemetery was begun by French troops in the early summer of 1915.
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"
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