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PONT-RÉMY BRITISH CEMETERY 
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​Somme

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.05929, Longitude: 1.90783

Pont-Rémy British Cemetery

​Location Information

The village of Pont-Rémy is 11 kilometres (7 miles) south-east of Abbeville, on the northern bank of the Somme. The British Cemetery is north of the village, near the west side of the road to Buigny-l'Abbe and St. Riquier.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access with some difficulty.


Historical Information

The 38th and 4th Casualty Clearing Stations were posted to Pont-Rémy in March and April 1918, the 41st Stationary Hospital from April 1918 to the following November, and the 46th Casualty Clearing Station from December 1918 to April 1919. The Cemetery was made by these medical units and was used from May 1918 to May 1919. One grave was later brought in from Pont-Rémy Communal Cemetery, two from Condé-Folie Communal Cemetery and one from Long Churchyard.

Pont-Rémy British Cemetery now contains 55 First World War burials.

Casualty Details: United Kingdom 48, Australia 6, Canada 1, Total 55.


​The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw


Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

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859 Corporal
James Cuddy
24th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
22nd August 1918, aged 24.
Plot I. A. 12.

Son of James and Lillias Sharpe Cuddy. Born at Collingwood, Victoria, Australia.

Pte Cuddy enlisted on 26 March 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915. On 22 August 1918 he died following an accident at the Fourth Army Musketry School near Abbeville in France.



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5073 Sapper
Charles William Dau
6th Field Coy. Australian Engineers
26th July 1918.
Plot I. A. 8.

Son of John and Martha Dau; husband of Edith M. Dau, of Wandong, Victoria, Australia. Born at Wandong, Victoria.

His headstone bears the inscription: "Though Death Divides Fond Memories Cling; By Loving Wife And Children."

The Commanding Officer of 41st Stationary Hospital, Pont-Remy gave the following details to an enquiry about Charles Dau's death;

"No. 5073 Sapper, C. W. Dau, 6th Field Coy, Aust. Engineers was gassed at 10-30pm on 22-07-18 and admitted to this hospital on 23-07-1918, suffering from Gas Shell, Mustard and Phosgene.

On admission the disability was of a serious nature, and on the days following, his condition became very much worse. On 25-07-18, Broncho-Pneumonia - following Gas Shell poisoning supervened; and with respiratory distress having increased, death took place at 8-45 on 26-07-18. Sapper Dau was buried on 27-07-18 in the British Military Cemetery at Pont Remy."

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891678 Gunner
James Johnson
"B" Bty. 307th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
19th February 1919, aged 26.
Plot I. B. 8.

Son of Peter and Barbara Johnson, of Eccles, Lancs. Died of Pneumonia after Influenza.


His headstone bears the inscription: "Rest In Peace."

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7190 Lance Corporal
John Phillips
2nd/1st West Lancs Field Coy. Royal Engineers
2nd October 1916.
Plot III. A. 4.


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Lieutenant
Ernest Tickle
2nd Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
13th July 1918, aged 28.
Plot I. A. 7.

Son of Alfred and Emily Tickle, of 80, Liverpool Rd., St. Helens; husband of Alice Beatrice Tickle, of Colliery House, Nut Grove, St. Helens, Lancs.

His headstone bears the inscription: "Always Remembered By His Loving Wife Alice & All At Liverpool Rd."


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Captain
Austin Hale Woodbridge
8th Bn. 
Middlesex Regiment
28th February 1919, aged 43.
Plot I. B. 14.

Son of Thomas Hurray Riches Woodbridge and Frances Eliza beth Woodbridge, of Uxbridge, Middx; husband of Norah Woodbridge, of 4, Upper Belgrave Rd., Durdham Down, Bristol. Served with Unit Aug., 1914, to Jan., 1917, afterwards Town Major of Bray-sur-Somme and late Area Commandant of Hornoy-sur-Somme.



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Postcard showing the railway station at Pont-Remy, pre-war.
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C.1908; The Church and bridge at Pont-Remy.

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Eaucourt-sur-Somme Churchyard (WW2)
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Abbeville Communal Cemetery

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