Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Back to Search

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

CLARK, Ernest James

Service number 583
Second Lieutenant
21st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

MILLIKEN, John Robert

Service number 1971A
Private
2nd Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1

BALLARD, Charles Robert

Service number 3004
Private
46th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1896

HENDERSON, John

Service number 3601
Private
15th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1882

READ, Frank

Service number 2450
Lance Corporal
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 16 May 1897

COE, Charles Newman

Service number 3267
Private
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 May 1895

MCLEAN, Donald Wallace

Service number 4038
Private
4th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

EARLS, Joseph Clement

Service number 3803
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 28 Jan 1889

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