NOREUIL AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
Roll of Honour
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Location Information
Noreuil is a village approximately 10 kilometres north-east of Bapaume.
From Bapaume take the N30 in the direction of Cambrai. After passing through the village of Beugny, continue for approximately 1 kilometre. Turn left onto the D18 in the direction of Croisilles. Continue on the D18 until Lagnicourt-Marcel, then turn left onto the D5. Noreuil is 2.9 kilometres further on. Once into the village continue for 400 metres, then turn left at the CWGC signpost. Noreuil Australian Cemetery is 300 metres down this road.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
Noreuil was the scene of a fierce engagement between Australian troops and the Germans on 15 April 1917.
The Australian Cemetery was started at the beginning of April 1917 and used until the following December. Four further burials were made in September 1918.
Noreuil Australian Cemetery contains 245 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 28 of the burials are unidentified and 82 graves destroyed by shell fire are represented by special memorials. These 82 are almost all of the 50th Australian Infantry Battalion.
Total Burials: 245.
Identified Casualties: Australia 157, United Kingdom 60. Total 217.
Unidentified Casualties: Australia 26, United Kingdom 2. Total 28.
The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
5345 Private Richard Henry Hallams 19th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 17th April 1917 was buried in Noreuil but his body was lost and he is now commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial on the Somme. Image and more information can be found by clicking on the Memorial link above.
Cemetery images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
May 1917; View of the valley beyond Noreuil, where the 50th Australian Battalion fought a distinguished action of 2 April 1917.
Three graves of Sergeant J.T. Moody, Bombadier J.R. White and Sergeant F.M. Daly in the Noreuil Australian Cemetery, France, 1917.
May 1917; Four members of the Australian Field Artillery using an 18 pounder gun in action at Noreuil Valley, during the fight for Bullecourt. Note the empty shell cases right background.
7th May 1917; The first aid post near Noreuil, showing stretcher bearers bringing in wounded during the fighting at Bullecourt. Note the pigeon baskets, in which messages carrying pigeons have been brought up by a despatch rider on a Triumph model H motor bike to a signal office in the vicinity for distribution among the attacking troops.
The grave of 6042 Private (Pte) Charles Buckley, 27th Battalion, in the Noreuil Australian Cemetery. A labourer of Adelaide, South Australia, prior to enlistment on 19 September 1916 he embarked from Adelaide aboard HMAT Afric on 7 November 1916 for Plymouth, England. After training in England he joined his unit in France on 9 April 1917. Pte Buckley was killed in action near Noreuil, France, on 21 April 1917. He was aged 42 years.
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The original grave of 486 Staff Sergeant (Sgt) Victor Frederick Hansen, and 492 Sgt William Hector Trewhella, 1st Australian Field Artillery (AFA) Brigade, in northern France. Both were killed in action on 10 April 1917, and were subsequently reinterred in Noreuil Australian Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
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23rd April 1917; View of the dugouts and personnel of the 27th Battalion on the Sunken Road near Noreuil. This unit was then in support of the 5th and 6th Brigades. Identified, left to right: 5129 Private (Pte) A T Stanton (back); 132 Pte J Maly; 89 Corporal H G Howe; unidentified (foreground); 6354 Pte I Baker (foreground); next four unidentified; 2354 Sergeant S R Delbridge (background); unidentified; Capt A V Gallasch MC (kneeling foreground); 2343 Pte A Chaplin (foreground sitting on sandbags); next two unidentified; Major H P Brownell DSO, Regimental Medical Officer (back); unidentified; Captain H T Schramm (right foreground); unidentified; 3191 Pte C Knockaert (right background).
May 1917; General J. J. T. Hobbs, Commanding the 5th Division (second from left), talking to stretcher bearers carrying a wounded man near Noreuil. At this time the fight for Bullecourt was in progress.
