VILLE-SUR-ANCRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.95847, Longitude: 2.60875
Location Information
Ville-sur-Ancre is a village in the Department of the Somme, 7 Kms south-west of Albert and 2 Kms north of Morlancourt. The Communal Cemetery is on the road to Treux and the Extension adjoins the south end of it.
Visiting Information
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Historical Information
In 1916 the village of Ville-sur-Ancre was used occasionally by field ambulances. It was captured by the Germans at the end of April 1918, and retaken by the 2nd Australian Division on 19 May.
The communal cemetery was used for burials during 1916. The extension was begun in August 1918 by the 12th Division Burial Officer, and after the Armistice graves were brought in from the battlefields of the Somme and the Ancre. One of the concentrated graves was brought from BEAUMONT-HAMEL GERMAN CEMETERY, on the South-West side of Beaumont-Hamel village.
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery Extension contains 106 First World War burials, 54 of them unidentified.
Total Burials: 106.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 52.
Unidentified Casualties: 54.
The extension was designed by Arthur James Scott Hutton
The COMMUNAL CEMETERY contains 24 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, and one French grave. There are also four Second World War burials, one of which is unidentified.
Total Burials: 29.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 20, Australia 4, France 1. Total 25.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 3.
World War Two Unidentified Casualty: 1.
20489 Corporal
Arthur Deacon
5th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
16th August 1918, aged 26.
Row C. 1.
Son of Thomas and Ellen Deacon, of 5, Nichol St., Desborough, Market Harborough.
His headstone bears the inscription "Into Thy Hands"
Arthur Deacon
5th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
16th August 1918, aged 26.
Row C. 1.
Son of Thomas and Ellen Deacon, of 5, Nichol St., Desborough, Market Harborough.
His headstone bears the inscription "Into Thy Hands"
G/28589 Lance Corporal
Rupert George Jarrett
6th Bn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
9th August 1918.
Row B. 15.
Rupert George Jarrett
6th Bn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
9th August 1918.
Row B. 15.
T/203738 Corporal
George Heny King
"D" Company, 6th Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
8th August 1918, aged 19.
Row A. 9.
His headstone bears the inscription "Grandson Of H. & L. King R. I. P."
George Heny King
"D" Company, 6th Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
8th August 1918, aged 19.
Row A. 9.
His headstone bears the inscription "Grandson Of H. & L. King R. I. P."
