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Cemetery Details

Location Villers-Bretonneux, Departement de la Somme - Picardie, France
Co‑ordinates N49.886294, E2.508438
Description

This cemetery is co-located with but is separate from the Australian National Memorial France, at Villers Brettoneaux and its Wall of Remembrance which commemorates soldiers missing with no known grave in France (less those memorialised at VC Corner near Fromelles).

The cemetery is sited astride the approach to the National War Memorial from the road to which it faces.

The cemetery contains graves of 2,142 Commonwealth burials from WW 1 and two from WW 2, of which 1,535 are identified.  The 2 graves relating to WW2 are of two New Zeland airmen killed nearby.

Most of the Australians interred here were killed in the 1918 fighting.  There are 733 Australian burials here most of whom were killed in the last six months of the war.

 

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Names

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BURGESS, Stewart Salmond

Service number 826
Second Lieutenant
20th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 30 Jul 1889

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GREGOR, Mark

Service number 695
Lieutenant
44th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born May 1885

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MCMASTER, George

Service number 3455A
Private
49th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1875

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HAVILAH, Anthony Joseph

Service number 3406
Private
52nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 16 Mar 1894

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GENTLE, George Joseph

Service number 6902
Private
20th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Nov 1899

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EDGERTON, Eric Henry Drummond

Service number COMMI...
Lieutenant
24th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Apr 1897

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COOPER, Sydney Featherstone

Service number 3576
Private
40th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1898

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ABRAHAM, Cyril Frank

Service number 7009
Private
49th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 16 Aug 1890

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