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Cemetery Details

Location 1 Le Bois Du Sart, 80131 D 1029 Roman Road Amiens - St Quentin, Morcourt, Picardie - Departement de la Somme, France
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

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ELLIS, Thomas George

Service number 4468
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

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SALTER, William Edward George

Service number 2256A
Private
Light Trench Mortar Batteries
AIF WW1
Born Aug 1898

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BLACK, Robert Livingstone Conning

Service number 5985
Corporal
7th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

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SHARPE, Frederick

Service number 444
Second Lieutenant
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Apr 1891

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RYAN, Francis Stanislaus

Service number 2199A
Lance Corporal
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

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BULL, Harold Joyce

Service number 1922
Sergeant
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 May 1895

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BENNETT, Francis

Service number 6110
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 6 Apr 1879

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BEATHAM, Robert Matthew

Service number 2742
Private
8th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 16 Jun 1894

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