Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension

Cemetery Details

Location D919, Warloy-Baillon, Somme - Hauts-de-France, France
Co‑ordinates N50.01302, E2.5291
Description

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.

History 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. 

Extension used from July 1916 to Nov 1916 Somme offensive & during the German attack in spring of 1918. Records 857 UK, 318 Aust., 152 Can., 3 unknown & 17 German burials.

The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

MACDONALD, Norman

Service number 650
Captain
13th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 22 Nov 1892

FITZGERALD, Leslie Thomas Manning

Service number 2139
Private
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

MURPHY, William Arthur

Service number 5133
Private
13th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 16 Nov 1894

MCDOUGALL, Duncan Patrick

Service number 2696
Private
23rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

ZELLER, George Herbert

Service number 2025
Corporal
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 28 Sep 1893

HAYES, John Desmond

Service number 4174
Private
47th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 7 Jul 1891

BRADLEY, George

Service number 828
Private
24th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1891

LOWE, Lawrence Oswald

Service number 222
Private
20th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

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