Heath Cemetery, Picardie, France

Cemetery Details

Location 1 Le Bois Du Sart, 80131 D 1029 Roman Road Amiens - St Quentin,
Co‑ordinates N49.8729502, E2.6717125
Description

Address:  1 Le Bois Du Sart, 80131, Morcourt, France.
(This cemetery is often stated as situated in Harbonnieres; its actual location is halfway between the two towns on the D1029. 

Heath Cemetery, so called from the wide expanse of open country on which it stands, was made after the Armistice, on the East side of a French Military Cemetery (now removed).

The earliest date of death is in September, 1915, the latest in October, 1918; the majority fell in March (German Spring Offensive) or August (the Allies "One Hundred Days" offensive), in 1918.

There are now 1,860 Commonwealth servicemen of WWI (1914-18) buried or commemorated in this cemetery.

Of these, nearly 400 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 24 Australian soldiers and two from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them.

Other special memorials record the names of 19 soldiers from the United Kingdom and two from Australia, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves could not be found.
Certain graves in Plots VIII and X, identified as a whole but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the additional words: "Buried near this spot".

Two Australian VC winners are buried here

Victoria Cross2742 Private Robert Matthew Beatham, VC, (/explore/people/219086)
                           8th Bn. Australian Infantry, killed in action, 11/08/1918, aged 24.
                           Plot VII. J. 13.
Son of Elizabeth Beatham, of Glassonby, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England, and the late John Beatham.

Victoria Cross: Lieutenant Alfred Edward Gaby, VC (/explore/people/52224)
                           28th Bn. Australian Infantry, killed in action 11/08/1918, aged 26
                           Plot V. E. 14.
Son of Alfred Athelstane Gaby and Adelaide Gaby. Born at Scottsdale, Tasmania.

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan.   28/10/2014.  Lest we forget.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

CURTIN, Allan

Service number 4100
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 16 Aug 1893

BARNARD, Victor Alfred

Service number 5473
Lance Corporal
7th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

HUNTER, John William Crawford

Service number 37331
Gunner
11th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 20 Apr 1873

LE NAY, Louis Leon

Captain
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 21 Dec 1891

BAKER, Henry Squire

Service number 1903
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 3 Sep 1881

NUTTALL, Claude Milton Rich

Service number 2198
Corporal
23rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 3 Jul 1895

SMITH, Edward Hamilton

Service number 4528
Private
53rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Mar 1895

HALL, John Kenworthy

Service number 4212
Lieutenant
46th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 Jun 1887

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