SENLIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme
France
GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.02862, Longitude: 2.57368
Location Information
Senlis-le-Sec is a village approximately 5 kilometres north-west of Albert. The Communal Cemetery is on the north-west side of the village, on a minor road which links the village with the Warloy-Baillon-Hedauville road. The Extension is on the south-east side the Communal Cemetery.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
The extension to the communal cemetery was begun in April 1918, after the fall of Albert, by the 12th (Eastern) and 38th (Welsh) Divisions. It was used until the following August but was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of the Somme and from the communal cemetery, where 23 Commonwealth soldiers who died 5-9 April 1918 had been buried.
Senlis Communal Cemetery Extension now contains 104 First World War burials.
Total Burials: 104.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 78, Australia 19.
The extension was designed by W H Cowlishaw.
117143 Private
Stephen Bingley
36th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf.)
5th April 1918, aged 30.
Plot I. D. 16.
Son of Mrs Agnes Bingley, husband of Ethel May Bingley of Pinxton, Nottinghamshire. He left behind 5 children.
Stephen Bingley
36th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf.)
5th April 1918, aged 30.
Plot I. D. 16.
Son of Mrs Agnes Bingley, husband of Ethel May Bingley of Pinxton, Nottinghamshire. He left behind 5 children.
2325 Private
Affleck Ferguson Fletcher
46th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
28th March 1918, aged 21.
Plot II. A. 7.
Inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man He Laid Down His Life For His Friends"
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Son of Mrs. Susan Fletcher, of Cooper St., Stawell, Victoria, Australia.
Studio portrait of Private (Pte) Affleck Ferguson Fletcher, 4th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion, of Stawell, Vic, wearing ribbons of his battalion's colours on his shoulder. Pte Fletcher, aged nineteen years, enlisted on 15 October 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Anchises (A68) in Melbourne on 14 March 1916. Pte Fletcher was killed in action near the town of Albert, France, on 28 March 1918, aged 21.
Affleck Ferguson Fletcher
46th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
28th March 1918, aged 21.
Plot II. A. 7.
Inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man He Laid Down His Life For His Friends"
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Son of Mrs. Susan Fletcher, of Cooper St., Stawell, Victoria, Australia.
Studio portrait of Private (Pte) Affleck Ferguson Fletcher, 4th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion, of Stawell, Vic, wearing ribbons of his battalion's colours on his shoulder. Pte Fletcher, aged nineteen years, enlisted on 15 October 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Anchises (A68) in Melbourne on 14 March 1916. Pte Fletcher was killed in action near the town of Albert, France, on 28 March 1918, aged 21.
Group portrait of officers of the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, after their return from fighting at Thiepval, photographed at Bouzincourt, September 1916. © IWM (Q 1151)
Members of the 51st Battalion, 4th Australian Division in reserve trenches on Anzac Ridge, near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector, Belgium. Identified: standing at right foreground is 3428 Private Gordon Archibald Ian Parsons, (killed in action 5 April 1918 near Dernancourt, France); seated to the right of Pte Parsons is 2398 Pte William Thomas Kennedy (wounded 6 April 1918); seated behind Pte Kennedy is 2403 Pte Soloman Littmann MM (died of wounds 18 May 1918 near Blangy-Tronville, France); seated beside Pte Littmann is 1636 Pte Robert Croy (killed in action 12 October 1917 near Steenvoorde, France); seated to the right of Pte Croy is 1641 Pte Michael Doyle (also killed in action 12 October 1917 near Steenvoorde); seated behind Pte Doyle is 4764 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Fleetwood Ashburnham Curteis (hospitalised 29 October 1918) and standing in the extreme background in the trench is 3205 Pte William Smith (hospitalised 15 November 1918).
Buried in this cemetery
3428 Private Gordon Archibald Ian Parsons, 51st Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F. died 5th April 1918, aged 25. Plot II. C. 4. Son of Henry and Charlotte Eliza Parsons, of 13, Gladstone St., East Perth, Western Australia. Born at Glebe, New South Wales. Inscription "God Will Be Done"
Buried in this cemetery
3428 Private Gordon Archibald Ian Parsons, 51st Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F. died 5th April 1918, aged 25. Plot II. C. 4. Son of Henry and Charlotte Eliza Parsons, of 13, Gladstone St., East Perth, Western Australia. Born at Glebe, New South Wales. Inscription "God Will Be Done"
3446 Private
Thomas Gould Pendlebury
46th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
28th March 1918, aged 21.
Plot II. A. 5.
Inscription "Australian Hero At Rest"
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Son of George Henry and Charlotte Ellen Pendlebury, of Kingwood, Victoria, Australia. Born at Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia.
Studio portrait of 3446 Private (Pte) Thomas Gould Pendlebury. A farmer from Lah via Warracknabeal, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Pendlebury embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 46th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius on 11 May 1917. On 26 March 1918, aged 21, he was killed in action and buried in the Senlis Communal Cemetery Extension, France. His brother, 627 Corporal George Henry Pendlebury MM died of wounds on 1 March 1917 and is buried in Étaples Military Cemetery in France.
Thomas Gould Pendlebury
46th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
28th March 1918, aged 21.
Plot II. A. 5.
Inscription "Australian Hero At Rest"
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Son of George Henry and Charlotte Ellen Pendlebury, of Kingwood, Victoria, Australia. Born at Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia.
Studio portrait of 3446 Private (Pte) Thomas Gould Pendlebury. A farmer from Lah via Warracknabeal, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Pendlebury embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 46th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius on 11 May 1917. On 26 March 1918, aged 21, he was killed in action and buried in the Senlis Communal Cemetery Extension, France. His brother, 627 Corporal George Henry Pendlebury MM died of wounds on 1 March 1917 and is buried in Étaples Military Cemetery in France.
Men of the 2nd Australian Division entering a bath house. Most of the men are wearing sandbags in place of puttees. Identified are: 3291 Private J. W. H. Undo (evacuated wounded 3 October 1918) second to the right at bathhouse door; 3705 Private J. Seabrook (evacuated wounded 25 May 1918) two back to the right of Undo (partially obscured); 3692 Sergeant Montague Alphonso Roxby, killed in action 14 April 1918, aged 38, third from the right, partially obscured facing camera. Plot II. B. 6. Son of Ellen and the late Robert Roxby. Born at Kergunyah, Victoria, Australia. Inscription
"Kergunyah Hero Promoted To Glory"
"Kergunyah Hero Promoted To Glory"
Party of the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, wearing German helmets, after their return from the fighting at Thiepval. Bouzincourt, September 1916. © IWM (Q 1103)
