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