Bray Military Cemetery

Cemetery Details

Location Bray-sur-Somme, Somme, France
Co‑ordinates N49.9472, E2.71949
Description

The cemetery was begun in April 1916 by fighting units and field ambulances. In September 1916, the front line having been pushed further east, it was used by the XIV Corps Main Dressing Station and in 1917, the 5th, 38th and 48th Casualty Clearing Stations came forward and used it. In March 1918, the village and the cemetery fell into German hands, but were retaken by the 40th Australian Battalion on 24 August, and during the next few days the cemetery was used again.

After the Armistice graves were brought in to Plot I, Rows A1 and B1, and Plot II, Rows J and K, from the battlefields immediately north and south of the village and in 1924, further isolated graves (Plot III) were brought in.

Bray Military Cemetery now contains 874 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 127 of which are unidentified.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

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Names

Showing 6 people of interest from cemetery

FACEY, David Ronald

Service number 5072
Private
39th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1898

WESTAWAY, Carrington John

Service number 3409
Private
33rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 10 Jul 1886

GILSON, Leslie Victor

Service number 82
Corporal
35th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 30 Sep 1890

MCEVOY, Thomas

Service number 1200
Private
35th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

ALLEN, Fred Cadwallader

Service number 3010
Private
37th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

HOLLOWAY, Alfred Benjamin

Service number 3049
Private
42nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 25 May 1895

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