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Carnoy is a village and commune in
the Department of the Somme, six miles East-South-East of Albert. The
Military Cemetery is on the South side of the village.
The Cemetery was begun in August, 1915,
by the 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers and the 2nd King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry, when the village was immediately South of the British
front line. It continued in use by troops holding this sector until
July, 1916, when Field Ambulances came up and a camp was established
on the higher ground North of the village. It was closed in March, 1917.
From March to August, 1918, it was in German hands, and German (and
a few British) graves were made between the British graves and the entrance,
and also in a German Cemetery alongside; but the German graves and the
German Cemetery were removed in 1924.
Number of Burials by Unit
| Royal Field Artillery
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105
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King's Liverpool Regiment
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40
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| Royal Engineers |
40
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|
Middlesex Regiment
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38
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| Bedfordshire
Regiment |
36
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|
East Surrey
Regiment |
32
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| Royal Fusiliers -
City of London Regiment |
31
|
|
Suffolk Regiment |
25
|
| Manchester
Regiment |
24
|
|
Royal
Garrison Artillery |
24
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| Northamptonshire Regiment
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23
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|
King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry |
21
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| Queen's Own - Royal
West Kent Regiment |
19
|
|
King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
18
|
| Royal
Army Medical Corps |
18
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|
Royal
Berkshire Regiment |
18
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| Duke of Wellington
- West Riding Regiment |
15
|
|
9th Bn. London Regiment
- Queen Victoria's Rifles |
15
|
| Norfolk Regiment |
13
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|
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
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12
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| King's Own Scottish
Borderers |
11
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|
Essex Regiment |
10
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| Durham Light Infantry
|
9
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|
Machine Gun Corps
|
8
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| Queen's - Royal West
Surrey Regiment |
8
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|
West Yorkshire Regiment
|
8
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| Wiltshire Regiment
|
8
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|
Devonshire Regiment
|
7
|
| Royal Scots - Lothian
Regiment |
7
|
|
Seaforth Highlanders
|
7
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| Black Watch - Royal
Highlanders |
6
|
|
Cheshire Regiment
|
6
|
| Dorsetshire Regiment
|
6
|
|
Green Howards - Yorkshire
Regiment |
6
|
| Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry |
6
|
|
Royal Irish Regiment
|
6
|
| Royal
Warwickshire Regiment |
6
|
|
Cameronians
- Scottish Rifles |
5
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| Gordon Highlanders
|
5
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King's Shropshire
Light Infantry |
5
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| New Zealand Units
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5
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|
North Staffordshire
Regiment |
5
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| Northumberland Fusiliers
|
5
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|
Duke of Cornwall's
Light Infantry |
4
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| Lancashire Fusiliers
|
4
|
|
Rifle Brigade |
4
|
| Royal Dublin Fusiliers
|
4
|
|
Royal Sussex Regiment
|
4
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| Scots Guards |
4
|
|
Buffs - East Kent
Regiment |
3
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| Coldstream Guards
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3
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|
East Yorkshire Regiment
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3
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| Highland Light Infantry
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3
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|
Leinster Regiment
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3
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| Monmouthshire Regiment
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3
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Royal Flying Corps/Royal
Air Force |
3
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| Royal Horse Artillery
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3
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|
Somerset Light Infantry
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3
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| Argyll & Sutherland
Highlanders |
2
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|
Border Regiment |
2
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| Canadian Units |
2
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|
East Lancashire Regiment
|
2
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| Grenadier Guards |
2
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|
King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment |
2
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| 13th Bn. London Regiment
- Kensington |
2
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22nd Bn. London Regiment
- The Queen's |
2
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| Royal Army Ordnance
Corps |
2
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Royal Army Service
Corps |
2
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| Royal Irish Fusiliers
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2
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Royal Irish Rifles
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2
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| South Staffordshire
Regiment |
2
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|
Welsh Regiment |
2
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| Australian Unit |
1
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Chaplain to the Forces
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1
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| Connaught Rangers
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1
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|
General List |
1
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| Gloucestershire Regiment
|
1
|
|
3rd Hussars |
1
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| 18th Hussars |
1
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6th Inniskilling Dragoons
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1
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| Irish Guards |
1
|
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17th Lancers |
1
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| Lincolnshire Regiment
|
1
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|
1st Bn. London Regiment
- Royal Fusiliers |
1
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| 3rd Bn. London Regiment
- Royal Fusiliers |
1
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5th Bn. London Regiment
- London Rifle Brigade |
1
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| 14th Bn. London Regiment
- London Scottish |
1
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16th Bn. London Regiment
- Queen's Westminster Rifles |
1
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| Loyal North Lancashire
Regiment |
1
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|
Royal Inniskilling
Fusiliers |
1
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| Royal Irish Fusiliers
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1
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Royal Munster Fusiliers
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1
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| Notts.
& Derbys Regiment |
1
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South
African Regiment |
1
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| South Wales Borderers
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1
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Welch Guards |
1
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| Worcestershire Regiment
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1
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| Identified burials
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826
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| Unidentified
UK burials |
29
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| Total burials |
855
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Those with Awards in this cemetery
Pte. J. R. Bray, Mentioned in Despatches,
Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 14th July 1916 aged 32. T.38
Capt. Alfred Edeward Cecil Cart
de Lafontaine M.C., East Yorkshire Regiment, Attd. H.Q. Staff 76th
Infantry Brig. 3rd Division. Killed in action 9th July 1916 aged 28.
K.30
2nd Lt. Godfrey Michell Courage,
Mentioned in Despatches, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Died 1st July
1916 aged 20. R.N.Q. 20
Lt. Col. Fitzroy Edmund Penn Curzon,
Mentioned for D.S.O. in Sir Douglas Haig's Despatch of 13th November.
Commanded the 6th Bn. Royal Irish Regiment which he raised and trained.
Killed in action at Ginchy 9th Sept. 1916 aged 57.. R.34
Bmdr. Edward Fryer M.M., "D"
Bty. 75th Brig. Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action 22nd Oct. 1916
aged 19. A.11
Sgt. A. W. E. Higgins D.C.M.,
1st Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment. Died 13th Jan. 1916. U.8
2nd Lt. M. Hill D.C.M., 3rd
Signal Coy. Royal Engineers. Died 19th July 1916 aged 20. K.31
Capt. Amyas Macgregor M.C.,
1st London Field Coy. Royal Engineers. Died of wounds 13th Oct. 1916
aged 24. U.9
Cpl. C. J. Mobbs M.M., 7th Signal
Coy. Royal Engineers. Died 19th July 1916. M.30
Sgt. William Riordan D.C.M.,
112th Bty. Royal Field Artillery. Died of wounds (gas) 5th Oct. 1916
aged 37. H.10
2nd Cpl. F. J. Russell M.M.,
92nd Field Roy. Royal Engineers. Died 3rd July 1916. U.26
Major John Somerled Thorpe M.C.,
Scots Guards, attd. 2nd Bn. Killed in action 15th Sept. 1916 aged 44.
Q.39
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Pte Frederick Arthur Whittemore
enlisted as Pte. 4157, Bedfordshire Regiment and then transferred
to 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment as Pte. G14877. Posted
to France in August 1916. He was awarded the Military Medal
for "Conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty at St. Emilie
on 23/3/1918 and Wiencourt on 26/3/1918." (London Gazette
6/8/1918). Bar awarded at Wytschaete on 16/4/1918 (London
Gazette 13/9/1918. Received British Medal and Victory Medal.
Killed in action 26/8/1918 aged 21. 21. Z. 13.
His brother Charles is buried
in A.I.F. Burial
Ground, Grass Lane, Flers
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Pte. Charles Wilsher M.M., 7th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment. Died 2nd
May 1916 aged 23. K.16
Others buried in this Cemetery
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Captain Wilfred Percy Nevill,
1st Btn East Yorkshire Regiment, killed in action 1st July 1916.
E. 28.
William Percy Nevill, or "Bill"
or "Billie" as he was also known was gazzetted Second
Lieutenant in the East Yorks in November 1914, and was eventually
posted to the 8th East Surreys. Before the attack on July 1st
Nevill and his brother officers, realising the strain of a frontal
attack on the German lines by his men, conceived a plan to dribble
footballs across no-mans land purely to relieve the strain on
the men and take their minds away from what may happen to them.
On the eve of the battle, two footballs were printed with the
messages: 'The Great European Cup-Tie Final. East Surreys
V Bavarians. Kick off at zero' and 'No Referee'
Nevill himself kicked one of footballs into No Mans Land
to begin the attack. He seems to have made it across No Mans
Land but was shot through the head as he reached the German
wire. Seven of the 8/East Surreys' officers were killed in the
attack including Nevill's Company second in command Lieutenant
R.E. Soames who had kicked off the other football.
There bodies were recovered from the battlefield and were buried
together in the cemetery on the afternoon of 3 July. Only Nevill
has his own headstone - which bears the cap badge of his commissioned
unit - The East Yorkshire Regt. and not the 8/East Surreys,
because he was still officially only attached to the Battalion.
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