Details
Connaught Cemetery was begun during the early autumn
of 1916, and at the Armistice it contained 228 graves (the whole of
Plot I except 10 graves). It was then very greatly increased by the
concentration of graves from the small cemeteries and battlefields immediately
surrounding it, the great majority being those of officers and men who
fell in the summer and autumn of 1916. It now covers an area of 4,651
square metres; and it contains the graves of 1,278 soldiers (and sailors
and Marines of the Royal Naval Division) from the United Kingdom, of
whom 642 are not known by name, and 425 not even by their unit.. Special
memorials have been erected to two soldiers from the United Kingdom
who are beleived to be buried among the unknown graves, and to five
who were buried in Divion Wood Cemetery No. 2 but whose graves could
not be found on concentration.
The more important cemeteries concentrated into Connaught Cemetery,
Thiepval were the following :-
Thiepval Village Cemetery, on the summit of the ridge, West of
the road to Grandcourt. It contained the graves of 215 British soldiers
who fell in 1916 (or in a few cases 1918)
Thiepval Valley Cemetery, on the South-East of Thiepval Wood, containing
11 British graves.
Quarry Palace Cemetery, Thiepval, close to the river and a little
North-East of the hamlet of St. Pierre-Divion, containing 23 British
graves of the autumn of 1916-17.
St. Pierre-Divion Cemetery No.1, Thiepval, a little South-East of
that hamlet containing the 10 British graves of November 1916.
Divion Road Cemetery No. 2, Thiepval, almost adjoining St. Pierre-Divion
Cemetery No.1, and containing 60 British graves of July, August and
September 1916.
Small Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, opposite Connaught Cemetery,
across the road. It was made by the 11th Division in November 1916,
and contained the graves of 41 British soldiers who fell for the most
part on the 1st July.
Battery Valley Cemetery, Grandcourt, half-a-mile South-West of that
village, containing 56 British graves of November and December, 1916
and one of July, 1917.
Paisley Hillside Cemetery, Authuile, on the South side of Thiepval
Wood, alongside Paisley Avenue Cemetery, and named from the same trench.
It contained 32 British graves of July and August 1916, mainly of the
49th (West Riding) Division.
Gordon Castle Cemetery, Authuile, just inside the South border of
Thiepval Wood. It contained 33 British graves (26 belonging to the 49th
Division) of July - September, 1916 and the grave of one French soldier
who fell in October, 1914.
Bluff Cemetery, Authuile, half a mile North of Authuile village,
containing 43 British graves of July and September, 1916
Number of Burials by Unit
Royal Inniskilling
Fusiliers |
84
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Duke of Wellington
(West Riding Regiment) |
54
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Lancashire Fusiliers
|
54
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Royal Irish Rifles
|
40
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Notts.
& Derbyshire Regiment |
32
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West Yorkshire
Regiment |
28
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Gloucestershire Regiment
|
26
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Black Watch |
24
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North
Staffordshire Regiment |
17
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Royal
Navy Division - infantry |
16
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Royal West Kent Regiment
|
16
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South Lancashire Regiment
|
15
|
Queen's - Royal West
Surrey Regiment |
14
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Bedfordshire Regiment
|
12
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Cambridgeshire Regiment
|
11
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Machine Gun Corps
|
11
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Royal Sussex Regiment
|
11
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East Surrey Regiment
|
10
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Royal Engineers |
10
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Cheshire Regiment
|
9
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Dorsetshire Regiment
|
9
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Northumberland Fusiliers
|
9
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Hertfordshire Regiment
|
8
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Middlesex Regiment
|
8
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Hampshire Regiment
|
7
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|
Loyal North Lancs
Regiment |
7
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South Staffordshire
Regiment |
7
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East Yorkshire Regiment
|
6
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King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
6
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|
Royal Warwickshire
|
6
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Norfolk Regiment |
5
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|
Rifle Brigade |
5
|
Royal Fusiliers |
5
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|
Buffs - East Kent
Regiment |
4
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Leicestershire Regiment |
4
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|
Royal Field Artillery
|
4
|
East Lancashire
Regiment |
3
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King's
Own Royal Lancaster Regiment |
3
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King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry |
3
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Worcestershire Regiment
|
3
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York & Lancaster Regiment
|
3
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|
Royal Army Service
Corps |
2
|
Suffolk Regiment |
2
|
|
Welsh Regiment |
2
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Border Regiment |
1
|
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Monmouthshire Regiment
|
1
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Northamptonshire Regiment
|
1
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Royal Dragoons, attached
South Lancashire Regiment |
1
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Wiltshire Regiment
|
1
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Identified burials
|
620
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Unidentified
burials |
642
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Total burials |
1262
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Awards
C.S.M. G. A. Brown M.M. 1st/4th
Bn. York & Lancaster Regiment, K.I.A. 8th Sept. 1916. II. J. 1
Pte. J. Davidson M.M. 2nd/5th Bn. Black Watch, K.I.A. 14th Oct.
1916. XI.D. 9
L/Cpl. J. Dennis M.M. 6th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment, died 25th
Aug. 1918. IX. A. 9
C.S.M. E. E. Iredale M.M.1st/5th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment,
died 29th Aug. 1916, aged 19. II. J. 6
Sgt. H. E. Morse M.M. 8th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment, died
18th Nov. 1916. VIII. E. 7
L/Cpl. A. E. Nelson, M.M. 14th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles. K.I.A.
1st July 1916, aged 21. III. A. 7
Sgt. G. Urquhart M.M. 1st/5th York & Lancaster Regiment,
died 11th Aug. 1916 aged 24. II. J. 3
Sgt. G. Warwick M.M. 1st/7th Bn. Duke of Wellington Regiment,
died 22nd July 1916. XIII. D. 5
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