VILLE-SUR-ANCRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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.
World War One Burials
Click on individual headstone for details
(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 We have tried to sharpen the images and we will retake the images once the headstones have been replaced by the CWGC)
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.
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.
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"
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"
52413 Driver
H. W. Picker
97th Field Company, Royal Engineers
26th June 1916.
Row A. 6.
H. W. Picker
97th Field Company, Royal Engineers
26th June 1916.
Row A. 6.
