Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension (Somme)

Details

Aveluy is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, immediately North of Albert. The village lies between he Ancre and the Albert-Arras main railway line. The Communal Cemetery is in the village, and the Extension is on the south side of it.

The village was held by British forces, in succession to the French, from July, 1915, to the 26th March, 1918; and the extension, begun by the French, was continued by our units and Field Ambulances from August, 1915, to March, 1917. In the latter month the 3rd and 9th Casualty Clearing Stations began to use it, and the 9th remained until November, 1917. On the 26th-27th March, 1918, the village and the cemetery passed into German hands; they were retaken at the end of August, and two more graves were dug in Row J.

Number of burials by Unit

Royal Engineers
56
  Australian units
55
Royal Field Artillery
40
  Highland Light Infantry
26
Northamptonshire Regiment
24
  Royal Fusiliers - City of London Regiment
22
Lancashire Fusiliers
21
  Royal Garrison Artillery
18
Rifle Brigade
17
  Border Regiment
15
Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
15
  West Yorkshire Regiment
15
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
14
  Cameronians - Scottish Rifles
13
Devonshire Regiment
13
  Royal Berkshire Regiment
11
Northumberland Fusiliers
10
  Royal Sussex Regiment
10
Middlesex Regiment
9
  Norfolk Regiment
9
Queen's - Royal West Surrey Regiment
9
  Royal West Kent Regiment - Queen's Own
8
Seaforth Highlanders
8
  Buffs - East Kent Regiment
7
Canadian units
7
  10th Hussars
7
Lincolnshire Regiment
7
  King's Liverpool Regiment
6
Royal Irish Rifles
6
  Essex Regiment
5
Gloucestershire Regiment
5
  King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
5
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
5
  South Wales Borderers
5
Army Cyclist Corps
4
  Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons
4
Royal Scots
4
  York & Lancaster Regiment
4
Black Watch - Royal Highlanders
3
  East Lancashire Regiment
3
Gordon Highlanders
3
  King's Royal Rifle Corps
3
Machine Gun Corps - Infantry
3
  Royal Army Medical Corps
3
Royal Army Service Corps
3
  Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
3
South Lancashire Regiment
3
  South Staffordshire Regiment
3
Sherwood Foresters - Notts. & Derbys Regiment
3
  Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
2
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
2
  Duke of Wellington - West Riding Regiment
2
East Surrey Regiment
2
  East Yorkshire Regiment
2
Indian Labour Corps
2
  Suffolk Regiment
2
Welch Regiment
2
  Wiltshire Regiment
2
Worcestershire Regiment
2
  Cheshire Regiment
1
Dorsetshire Regiment
1
  General List
1
Glasgow Yeomanry
1
  Green Howards - Yorkshire Regiment
1
King's Shropshire Light Infantry
1
  22nd Bn. London Regiment - The Queen's
1
2nd Lothian - Border Horse
1
  Manchester Regiment
1
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1
  Royal Naval Division
1
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1
  Second Life Guards
1
South African Labour Corps
1
     
Indentified burials
586
     
Unidentified UK soldier & sailor burials:
27
     
Total burials
613
     

Diagram of the Cemetery

Those having Awards in this cemetery

Maj. Geoffrey Dennis Browne, Mentioned in Despatches. "C" Bty. 240th Brig. Royal Field Artillery. Died 19th Sept. 1916 aged 28. H.39

Maj. A. A. Chase D.S.O., Royal Engineers, attd. Royal Sussex Regiment. Died 11th March 1917. L. 1

R.S.M. Patrick Wilfred Gallagher M.C. 14th Heavy Artillery Group, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died of wounds 7th May 1917 aged 32. N. 49

Lt. Edward Leonard Gedye, Twice Mentioned in Despatches. 240th (South Midland) Brig. Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action 23rd/24th Aug. 1916 aged 23.

Pte. Thomas Lockwood D.C.M., King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Died 9th Feb. 1916 aged 37. C.23

Cpl. Arthur Purdon Newson M.M. 4th Bn. Australian Infantry. Died of wounds 16th April. 1917 aged 22. N. 44

Capt. The Honourable Roland Erasmus Philipps M.C. 9th Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action 7th July 1916 aged 26. H. 32

Capt. Robert John Smith, Mentioned in Despatches. 15th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers. Killed in action 6th May 1916 aged 28. E. 26

Sgt. J. Trimmer D.C.M., 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment. Died 1st July 1916. F. 29

Others buried in this cemetery

Pte Myles Burton 2701. 1st/4th Bn. King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt. Died 14th Aug., 1915. Age 24. Son of James and Sarah Ann Burton, of The Flags, Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, Lancs. B. 10