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

HARTLEY, Edwin Mather

Service number 3793
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Jul 1878

MARTIN, Thomas Francis

Service number 32337
Gunner

MOYNA, John Patrick

Service number 2812
Sergeant
5th Machine Gun Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jan 1883

REYCRAFT, William Calvet

Service number 3126
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 18 Aug 1885

GRAHAM, Arthur John

Service number 16694
Private
13th Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born Nov 1892

BRITT, William

Service number COMMI...
Lieutenant
51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 9 Jun 1893

JAMES, Cyril Albert

Service number 4990
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 22 May 1898

VENN, John Henry

Service number 3204
Private
2nd Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Nov 1893

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