CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme
France
GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 49.9151, Longitude: 2.51941
© Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Corbie is a small town 15 kilometres east of Amiens.
Go north from the town centre taking the D1 (Rue Gambetta) in the direction of Bray. You will arrive at a set of traffic lights with the hospital diagonally on your left. Continue, taking the second turning on your right onto the Rue des Longues Vignes (VC6). The cemetery lies about 800 metres on the left.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to cemetery with some difficulty.
Historical Information
Corbie was about 20 kilometres behind the front when Commonwealth forces took over the line from Berles-au-Bois southward to the Somme in July 1915. The town immediately became a medical centre, with Nos 5 and 21 Casualty Clearing Stations based at La Neuville (the suburb across the Ancre) until October 1916 and April 1917 respectively. In November 1916 the front moved east, but the German advance in the Spring of 1918 came within 10 kilometres of the town and brought with it field ambulances of the 47th Division and the 12th Australian Field Ambulance.
The communal cemetery was used for burials until May 1916, when the plot set aside was filled and the extension opened. The majority of the graves in the extension are of officers and men who died of wounds in the 1916 Battle of the Somme. The remainder relate to the fighting of 1918.
The communal cemetery contains 250 First World War burials.
Casualty Details: United Kingdom 246, India 4. Total 250.
The extension was designed by Charles Holden
Corbie is a small town 15 kilometres east of Amiens.
Go north from the town centre taking the D1 (Rue Gambetta) in the direction of Bray. You will arrive at a set of traffic lights with the hospital diagonally on your left. Continue, taking the second turning on your right onto the Rue des Longues Vignes (VC6). The cemetery lies about 800 metres on the left.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to cemetery with some difficulty.
Historical Information
Corbie was about 20 kilometres behind the front when Commonwealth forces took over the line from Berles-au-Bois southward to the Somme in July 1915. The town immediately became a medical centre, with Nos 5 and 21 Casualty Clearing Stations based at La Neuville (the suburb across the Ancre) until October 1916 and April 1917 respectively. In November 1916 the front moved east, but the German advance in the Spring of 1918 came within 10 kilometres of the town and brought with it field ambulances of the 47th Division and the 12th Australian Field Ambulance.
The communal cemetery was used for burials until May 1916, when the plot set aside was filled and the extension opened. The majority of the graves in the extension are of officers and men who died of wounds in the 1916 Battle of the Somme. The remainder relate to the fighting of 1918.
The communal cemetery contains 250 First World War burials.
Casualty Details: United Kingdom 246, India 4. Total 250.
The extension was designed by Charles Holden
1133 Private
Thomas Brimblecombe
7th Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
13th August 1915, aged 44.
Plot I. A. 10.
Picture courtesy of great niece, Judith Irvine
Thomas Brimblecombe
7th Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
13th August 1915, aged 44.
Plot I. A. 10.
Picture courtesy of great niece, Judith Irvine
Second Lieutenant
Humphrey Porteus Cole
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
3rd April 1916, aged 21.
Plot I. E. 39.
Son of Henrietta Cole, of Fairleigh, Sidmouth, Devonshire.
Humphrey Porteus Cole
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
3rd April 1916, aged 21.
Plot I. E. 39.
Son of Henrietta Cole, of Fairleigh, Sidmouth, Devonshire.
302 Private
Samuel Dunn
4th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
20th August 1915
Plot I. A. 20.
Samuel Dunn
4th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
20th August 1915
Plot I. A. 20.
Second Lieutenant
Gerald Howard Eardley-Wilmot
Machine Gun Section, 9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
10th March 1916, aged 25.
Plot I. E. 11.
Son of F. Eardley Wilmot, R.N., and Mrs. L. M. Eardley Wilmot, of Lewisham, London.
Gerald Howard Eardley-Wilmot
Machine Gun Section, 9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
10th March 1916, aged 25.
Plot I. E. 11.
Son of F. Eardley Wilmot, R.N., and Mrs. L. M. Eardley Wilmot, of Lewisham, London.
13346 Corporal
William Thomas George
6th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
28th November 1915, aged 26.
Plot I. B. 12.
Son of Henry and Annie George, of 76, Cromwell Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire.
William Thomas George
6th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
28th November 1915, aged 26.
Plot I. B. 12.
Son of Henry and Annie George, of 76, Cromwell Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire.
Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos
78383 Driver
Joseph Charles Such
27th Bde. H.Q. Royal Field Artillery
12th January 1916, aged 17.
Plot I. C. 19.
"Remembered with Honour"
Picture courtesy of David Such
Joseph Charles Such
27th Bde. H.Q. Royal Field Artillery
12th January 1916, aged 17.
Plot I. C. 19.
"Remembered with Honour"
Picture courtesy of David Such
17496 Private
William Fredrick Whitehead
"A" Coy. 19th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
4th February 1916, aged 20.
Plot I. D. 40.
Son of Samuel and Alice Whitehead, of 5, Alexandra Road, Waterloo, Liverpool
William Fredrick Whitehead
"A" Coy. 19th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
4th February 1916, aged 20.
Plot I. D. 40.
Son of Samuel and Alice Whitehead, of 5, Alexandra Road, Waterloo, Liverpool
Corbie, France. 31 March 1918. Informal portrait of British cavalrymen cleaning up at Corbie after several days' hard fighting. Note the initials XV HRS on the door on the left.
Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels
British soldiers helping local inhabitants to reinstate their homes at Corbie, 17 January 1917. © IWM Q 78332
Gunners of the Royal Garrison Artillery firing a 60-pounder gun, seen at full recoil. Near Corbie, 1 April 1918. © IWM Q 8653
British, French, American and Australian soldier with a German prisoner reading President Wilson's message to the Kaiser at Corbie, 24 October 1918. © IWM Q 49809
Prisoner of War Camp outside Corbie on the Bray-Corbie Road in September 1916. Photograph shows Carl Wimmer (a German Prisoner of War) who already had the Iron Cross and did good work bringing in British wounded soldiers under heavy shell fire. Watering place for horses on the Bray-Fricourt road, South West of St. George's Hill. September 1916. © IWM Q 4274
