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VILLE-SUR-ANCRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Somme

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.95934, Longitude: 2.60834


​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

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


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.

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.
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery

World War One Burials

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(Some of the headstones are very badly worn and almost impossible to read. We have tried to sharpen the images and we will retake the images once the headstones have been replaced by the CWGC)

Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
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2126 Private 
Oscar Edward Bridson
21st Bn. 
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
3rd June 1918, aged 26.
Row D. 4.

Son of John Bridson, of Sebastopol, Victoria, Australia, and the late Annie Bridson.




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9666 Private
Charles Grande
1st Bn. 
Lincolnshire Regiment
21st June 1916, aged 22.
Row C. 2.

Son of John and Lois Grande, of 18, Canal St., Retford, Notts.

His headstone bears the inscription "Let Not His Sacrifice Be In Vain"





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52413 Driver
H. W. Picker
97th Field Company, 
Royal Engineers
26th June 1916.
​Row A. 6.




World War Two Burials

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Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery
Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery

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VILLE-SUR-ANCRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY extension
MORLANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO. 2
MORLANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO. 1


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