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BRAY-SUR-SOMME COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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​Somme

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.94189, Longitude: 2.71735

Location Information

Bray-sur-Somme is a village about 8 kilometres south-east of Albert. The Communal Cemetery is located north of the village centre on the road to Albert (D329).

Historical Information

Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery contains three Commonwealth burials of the First World War. Seven prisoners buried by the Germans in 1918 were later removed to Bronfay Farm and Bray Military Cemeteries.

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
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Captain 
John Percival Longfield M. V. O.
3rd Bn. Norfolk Regiment
30th September 1915, aged 29.

​Son of Lt. Col. Augustus Henry and Florence Amy Longfield, of Waterloo, Mallow, Co. Cork.

Other Burial Details

5195 Private R. P. Morris, 1st/4th Bn., The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, died 29th July 1916, aged 23. Son of Mrs. Morris, of 13, Duncan St., Horwich, Bolton. The headstone bears the inscription "The Midnight Star Shines O'er The Grave Of One We Loved But Could Not Save"

3307 Private G. Quinn, 2nd Bn. Leinster Regiment, died 3rd August 1916.
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery
Bray-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery

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