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

PLUMB, Reginald William Albert

Service number 1991
Private
5th Machine Gun Company
AIF WW1
Born 24 May 1897

TURNER, Charles Edgar Morris

Service number 1836
Private
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 31 Jul 1892

HANSEN, Stewart Murray

Service number 1000
Captain
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

CLARK, Ernest James

Service number 583
Second Lieutenant
21st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

HARNEY, John

Service number 2393
Private
49th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

GREEN, Herbert

Service number 3506
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born May 1890

MCFADYEN, Keith Robert Douglas

Service number 3869
Private
19th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 17 Dec 1896

LEGG, James Frederick

Service number 2807
Corporal
52nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Mar 1890

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