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PIGEON RAVINE CEMETERY

​Épehy
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​Somme

​France


GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.01865, Longitude: 3.16742

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Location Information

Epehy is a village situated approximately 21 kilometres north-east of Peronne. Pigeon Ravine Cemetery lies approximately 3 kilometres north-east of the village and north of the road to Honnecourt.


Visiting Information

The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.


Historical Information

Epehy was captured at the beginning of April 1917; lost on the 22nd March 1918; and retaken (in the Battle of Epehy) on the following 18th September by the 12th (Eastern) Division.

Pigeon Ravine Cemetery is on the South side of a shallow valley running East and West which was the scene of a mounted charge by the 2nd Lancers on the 1st December 1917. The cemetery was made by the 33rd Division Burial Officer at the beginning of October 1918.

There are now over 100, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly 20 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to two soldiers from the United Kingdom known or believed to be buried among them.

The cemetery covers an area of 514 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall.

Casualty Details: UK 137, Total Burials: 137.
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48144 Private
Robert Vincent Beare
"B" Coy. 2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
29th September 1918, aged 41.
Plot II. B. 2.

Son of John Hargreaves Beare and Sarah A. Beare, of Mickleover, Derby; husband of Ethel Jane Beare, of 63, Grange Rd., Dudley, Worcs. Cashier, Lloyds Bank, Dudley.

​His headstone bears the inscription: "Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori."

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37762 Private
William Arthur Boulter
2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
29th September 1918, aged 29.
Plot II. B. 3.

Son of Thomas and Selina Boulter, of 69, Offmore Rd., Kidderminster, Worcs.

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His headstone bears the inscription: "Thy Will Be Done."

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46775 Private
​Herbert Harvey Clarke
2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
29th September 1918, aged 20.
Plot I. B. 9.


Son of Alice Clarke, of Little Buckmans Cottage, Leigh Sinton Rd., Malvern, and the late Thomas Edward Clarke.

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R/41710 Rifleman
Harold Aubrey Dickens
King's Royal Rifle Corps, posted to 12th Bn. London Regiment (The Rangers)
21st September 1918.
Plot III. B. 1.




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204091 Lance corporal
Edgar Langford
2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
29th September 1918, aged 21.
Plot II. A. 8.


Son of Henry and Laura Langford, of Shrub Hill House. Worcester.

His headstone bears the inscription: "Life's Crown Well Won, Now He Rests."
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69129 Private
​Harold V. G. Pierson

1st Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
21st September 1918.
Plot III. C. 9.




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Battle of Epehy. British wounded and German prisoner sharing a cigarette at an advanced dressing station near Epehy, 18 September 1918. Note captured German Maxim 08/15 (Spandau) light machine guns in the background. © IWM (Q 11538)
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Battle of Epehy. Three soldiers resting on ground near Epehy captured by the 12th Division that day, 18th September 1918. © IWM (Q 11326)
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Dead Indian Cavalryman and horse; Villers-Guislain, March 1918. © IWM Q 42814
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The ruins of Ascension Farm, a strongpoint in the German second line, after it was captured by the 45th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force on 18 September 1918. © IWM E(AUS) 3252
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Battle of Epehy. Soldiers of the Lincolnshire Regiment holding a captured reserve trench beyond Epehy, 18th September 1918. © IWM Q 11327
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18th September 1918; The 45th Australian Battalion digging in under a smoke barrage near Ascension Farm on the second objective in the attack made by the 1st and 4th Australian Divisions and British Divisions upon the old British trench lines near Hargicourt and the outpost line of the Hindenburg system. The Hindenburg Outpost Line (the third and final objective in this battle) was about a mile distant at this point. This fight was part of what is known by the British as the 'Battle of Epehy', being a phase of the `Battles of the Hindenburg Line'. Identified are: Private R. J. Martin (fourth from the left), and Lance Corporal W. R. Thomson (fifth from the left).

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