SAILLY-AU-BOIS MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.12267, Longitude: 2.58862
Location Information
Sailly-au-Bois is a village between Arras and Amiens.
The Military Cemetery is western of the village, on the south side of the road (D23) leading to Bayencourt and Souastre. Access to this road can be taken from the main road (N25) from Doullens to Arras leading to Gaudiempre and St Amand (D23).
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
The cemetery was begun in May 1916, "in a field opposite the Town Major's dug-out". It was used by field ambulances and fighting units until March 1917, when the Allied line had moved forward, and again from April to August 1918, when the front came very close to it.
Sailly-au-Bois Military Cemetery contains 239 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
Casualty Details: UK 212, Australia 1 New Zealand 24, South Africa 2, Germany 1, Total Burials: 240.
The cemetery was designed by W C Von Berg.
Sailly-au-Bois is a village between Arras and Amiens.
The Military Cemetery is western of the village, on the south side of the road (D23) leading to Bayencourt and Souastre. Access to this road can be taken from the main road (N25) from Doullens to Arras leading to Gaudiempre and St Amand (D23).
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
The cemetery was begun in May 1916, "in a field opposite the Town Major's dug-out". It was used by field ambulances and fighting units until March 1917, when the Allied line had moved forward, and again from April to August 1918, when the front came very close to it.
Sailly-au-Bois Military Cemetery contains 239 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
Casualty Details: UK 212, Australia 1 New Zealand 24, South Africa 2, Germany 1, Total Burials: 240.
The cemetery was designed by W C Von Berg.
Pre 1936 - ©CWGC
2117 Corporal
Harold George Burgin
15th Bn. Australian Infantry. A. I. F.
22nd April 1918, aged 23.
Plot I. E. 8.
Son of John and Margaret Burgin; M husband of Lillian Burgin, of Cessnock Rd., Branxton, New South Wales. Born at Teralba, New South Wales.
Harold George Burgin
15th Bn. Australian Infantry. A. I. F.
22nd April 1918, aged 23.
Plot I. E. 8.
Son of John and Margaret Burgin; M husband of Lillian Burgin, of Cessnock Rd., Branxton, New South Wales. Born at Teralba, New South Wales.
Captain
Geoffroy De Carteret Millais
1st Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment
21st August 1918, aged 21.
Plot I. F. 8.
Son of John Guille Millais and Fanny Margaret Millais, of Comptons Brow, Horsham, Sussex.
Geoffroy De Carteret Millais
1st Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment
21st August 1918, aged 21.
Plot I. F. 8.
Son of John Guille Millais and Fanny Margaret Millais, of Comptons Brow, Horsham, Sussex.
8433 Private
J. H. Moore
10th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
9th February 1917, aged 17.
Plot II. A. 4.
Son of William Moore, of 11, Victoria Terrace, Rawlins St., Ladywood, Birmingham
J. H. Moore
10th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
9th February 1917, aged 17.
Plot II. A. 4.
Son of William Moore, of 11, Victoria Terrace, Rawlins St., Ladywood, Birmingham
Second Lieutenant
Eric James Trubshawe
460th (West Riding) Field Company, Royal Engineers.
Killed in action near Hebuterne, 2nd February 1917, aged 20.
Plot II A. 2.
Son of Vyvyan and Margaret Trubshawe, of 21, Fairfield Rd., East Croydon, Surrey. Born at Richmond, Surrey.
Eric James Trubshawe
460th (West Riding) Field Company, Royal Engineers.
Killed in action near Hebuterne, 2nd February 1917, aged 20.
Plot II A. 2.
Son of Vyvyan and Margaret Trubshawe, of 21, Fairfield Rd., East Croydon, Surrey. Born at Richmond, Surrey.
April 1918; Unidentified members of a raiding party of "A" Company, 16th Battalion, A. I. F., after a successful raid. The three men in the foreground are wearing bags containing gas masks around their necks. Attached to the bags are replacement carbon cylinders for the masks. An improvised light is on a pole behind the men.
A view of Nameless Trench near Hebuterne, a scene of severe fighting and heavy casualties at the end of March 1918, when the 4th Australian Infantry Brigade was detached from the Australian Corps and hurriedly thrown in with a British Division to check the German advance on this sector.
