Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery

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

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

RAMSAY, James Richard

Service number 4842
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 15 Apr 1898

MEDBURY, Leslie Harold

Service number 3270
Private
46th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

FRASER, Harold James

Service number 2802A
Sergeant
38th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

PARTRIDGE, Frank Leslie

Service number 3125
Sergeant
58th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 May 1891

BOUTLE, Lawrence Rheuben

Service number 7634
Private
41st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1899

DOYLE, William John

Service number 1107A
Private
3rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

ABRAHAM, Cyril Frank

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

LOCK, James Alfred

Service number 6306
Private
7th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

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