WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.01302, Longitude: 2.5291
Roll of Honour
Listed by Surname
Location Information
Warloy-Baillon is a village about 21 kilometres north-east of Amiens along the D919 to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the east side of the village and the extension is on the eastern side of the cemetery.
Visiting Information
The cemetery is at all times open to the public.
Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty.
Historical Information
The first Commonwealth burial took place in the communal cemetery in October 1915 and the last on 1 July 1916. By that date, field ambulances had come to the village in readiness for the attack on the German front line eight kilometres away, and the extension was begun on the eastern side of the cemetery.
The fighting from July to November 1916 on the northern part of the Somme front accounts for the majority of the burials in the extension, but some are from the German attack in the spring of 1918.
The communal cemetery contains 46 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 158 French war graves.
Total Burials: 206.
Commonwealth Casualties: United Kingdom 46.
Other Burials: France 158.
Non War Casualties: 2.
The extension contains 1,340 First World War Commonwealth burials and two from the Second World War. There are also 18 German war graves in the extension.
Total Burials: 1,360.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 867, Australia 321, Canada 152, Germany 17. Total 1.357.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 2, Germany 1. Total 3.
The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and John Reginald Truelove
Dedications
M2/074782 Private Stephen Heathfield M. M. 39th Div. (M. T.) Company, Army Service Corps, died 3rd November 1918. Remembered by grandchildren R. F and L. S. Stephens
Shot at Dawn
11257 Lance Corporal George Edward Hughes, 7th Bn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, executed for desertion, 23rd November 1916. Plot VI. D. 18. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Hughes, of 8 Ernest Street, Great Ancoats, Manchester. Believed to be a volunteer, he deserted on the Somme. (Putkowski, p 135)
11257 Lance Corporal George Edward Hughes, 7th Bn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, executed for desertion, 23rd November 1916. Plot VI. D. 18. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Hughes, of 8 Ernest Street, Great Ancoats, Manchester. Believed to be a volunteer, he deserted on the Somme. (Putkowski, p 135)
Picture © Geerhard Joos
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
Two U. K. World War Two Burials
41854 Pilot Officer
Kenneth Richard Lucas
Pilot in 145 Squadron, Royal Air Force
19th May 1940.
Plot 2. Row G. Grave 2.
Kenneth Richard Lucas
Pilot in 145 Squadron, Royal Air Force
19th May 1940.
Plot 2. Row G. Grave 2.
78421 Captain
David Edridge Pinkney
Royal Artillery, attd. 662 A.O.P. Sqdn. Royal Air Force
1st September 1944, aged 25.
Plot 2. Row G. Grave 1.
Son of David Renny Pinkney and Daisy Pinkney, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.
David Edridge Pinkney
Royal Artillery, attd. 662 A.O.P. Sqdn. Royal Air Force
1st September 1944, aged 25.
Plot 2. Row G. Grave 1.
Son of David Renny Pinkney and Daisy Pinkney, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.
