MONTIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY & EXTENSION
Somme
France
Location Information
Montigny (or Montigny-sur-I'Hallue) is a village on the D919 Amiens (15 kilometres) to Contay (3.5 kilometres) road, then the D78 to Montigny (1 kilometre).
Continue for a further 100 metres along the Rue de La Brassierie and then turn left, the cemetery will be found a further 100 metres on.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
The communal cemetery was used by the 47th (London) and 58th (London) Divisions from May to August 1918. It contains 56 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, three of which are unidentified.
Casualty Details: UK 56, Total Burials: 56.
Montigny (or Montigny-sur-I'Hallue) is a village on the D919 Amiens (15 kilometres) to Contay (3.5 kilometres) road, then the D78 to Montigny (1 kilometre).
Continue for a further 100 metres along the Rue de La Brassierie and then turn left, the cemetery will be found a further 100 metres on.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
The communal cemetery was used by the 47th (London) and 58th (London) Divisions from May to August 1918. It contains 56 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, three of which are unidentified.
Casualty Details: UK 56, Total Burials: 56.
Communal
Extension
L/27582 Serjeant
Robert Rigg
"D" Bty. 232nd Bde. Royal Field Artillery
7th August 1918.
Row A. 5.
Robert Rigg
"D" Bty. 232nd Bde. Royal Field Artillery
7th August 1918.
Row A. 5.
Shot at Dawn
39463 Private John Swain, 5th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, executed for desertion 11th August 1918, Row A. 21. (Extension).
39463 Private John Swain, 5th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, executed for desertion 11th August 1918, Row A. 21. (Extension).
Picture © Geerhard Joos
Informal portrait of officers outside the 105th Howitzer Battery Headquarters' dugout, the position being the first one occupied by the Battery on coming down to the Somme in April 1918. The howitzers were behind the bank on the immediate left. The position was taken over from a British Battery on 9 April 1918. The 14th Battery position was about 200 yards to the right. Left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) J. F. Strachan; Lt Rene Anthony Ulcoq MC; Captain (Capt) C. C. C. Wren MC, Officer Commanding, 14th Battery (foreground); Lt Miles Burnett Connor (in doorway); Lt Reginald Mcclure Abernethy, 14th Battery (Killed In Action By An Aerial Bomb Near Amiens On 22 May 1918); Major G. H. Parker, Officer Commanding. Capt Wren is holding a toy, celluloid 'Kewpie' doll that has a ribbon around its middle.
