Colincamps is a village and commune
in the Department of the Somme, 11 kilometres North of Albert. "Euston"
was a road junction 2 kilometres East of the village, and the cemetery
is close to that spot.
Colincamps and "Euston" were
within the British lines before the British offensive of July, 1916,
and the Cemetery was used as a front line burial ground during and after
the unsuccessful attack on Serre on the 1st July. After the German retreat
in March 1917 it was scarcely used, and towards the end of March 1918
it passed with Colincamps into German hands; but that was the limit
of the German advance. The line was held, and pushed forward by the
New Zealand Division; and the Cemetery was used again for burials in
April and May 1918. The whole of Plot I, except five graves in the last
row, represents this original cemetery of 501 graves.
After the Armistice, 758 graves were
brought in from neighbouring communes. Some were in small Cemeteries
( a list which is given below) and the rest were scattered over the
battlefields.
The Cemetery is particularly associated
with three dates and engagements; the attack on Serre on the 1st July
1916; the capture of Beaumont-Hamel on the 13th November 1916; and the
German attack on the 3rd New Zealand (Rifle) Brigade trenches before
Colincamps on the 5th April 1918.
Euston Road Cemetery covers an area
of 3,894 square metres. It is surrounded by a red brick wall and a stone
coping. It stands on a wide plateau and Colincamps and Gommecourt Wood
can be seen from it.
Number of burials by Unit
New Zealand burials |
284
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East Yorkshire Regt. |
137
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West Yorkshire Regt. |
56
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York & Lancaster
Regt. |
50
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Royal Field Artillery |
48
|
|
Royal Fusiliers -
City of London Regt. |
44
|
Middlesex Regt. |
29
|
|
East Lancashire Regt. |
28
|
Australian
burials |
26
|
|
Royal
Sussex Regt. |
23
|
Royal Scots Fusiliers |
22
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|
King's Royal Lancaster
Regt. |
20
|
Manchester Regt. |
20
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|
Machine Gun Corps
- Infantry |
19
|
Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
18
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|
South Staffordshire
Regt. |
18
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King's Liverpool |
16
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|
King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry |
13
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Royal
Berkshire Regt. |
13
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|
Border
Regt. |
12
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Durham Light Infantry |
12
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|
Royal Warwickshire
Regt. |
12
|
Essex Regt. |
11
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|
Royal Scots - Lothian
Regt. |
11
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Northumberland Fusiliers |
11
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|
Gordon Highlanders |
11
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Devonshire Regt. |
10
|
|
Rifle Brigade |
9
|
Highland Light Infantry |
8
|
|
Hampshire Regt. |
8
|
Duke of
Cornwall's Light Infantry |
8
|
|
Norfolk
Regt. |
8
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King's Shropshire
Light Infantry |
8
|
|
Bedfordshire Regt. |
7
|
Cheshire Regt. |
6
|
|
Honourable Artillery
Company |
6
|
Ox. & Bucks. Light
Infantry |
6
|
|
Royal Army Medical
Corps |
6
|
North Staffordshire
Regt. |
5
|
|
Queen's - Royal West
Surrey Regt. |
5
|
Royal Garrison Artillery |
5
|
|
Canadian burials |
4
|
Suffolk Regt. |
4
|
|
Royal Dublin Fusiliers |
4
|
Somerset Light Infantry |
4
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|
Duke of Wellington's
- West Riding Regt. |
3
|
Lancashire
Fusiliers |
3
|
|
Sherwood
Foresters - Notts. & Derbys. Regt. |
3
|
Royal Engineers |
3
|
|
King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
3
|
Royal Flying Corps/Royal
Air Force |
2
|
|
Black Watch - Royal
Highlanders |
2
|
Grenadier Guards |
2
|
|
Worcestershire Regt. |
2
|
5th Bn. London Regt.
- London Rifle Brigade |
2
|
|
Coldstream Guards |
1
|
2nd King Edward's
Horse |
1
|
|
Dorsetshire Regt. |
1
|
Wiltshire Regt. |
1
|
|
Welsh Regt. |
1
|
Gloucestershire Regt. |
1
|
|
Training Reserve Bn. |
1
|
Inniskilling Dragoons |
1
|
|
Seaforth Highlanders |
1
|
Lincolnshire Regt. |
1
|
|
28th Bn. London Regt.
- Artists Rifles |
1
|
Yorkshire Regt. |
1
|
|
Royal Army Service
Corps |
1
|
Indian Army burials |
1
|
|
|
1
|
Identified burials
|
1124
|
|
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Unidentified UK
burials: |
77
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|
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Unidentified New
Zealand burials: |
17
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Unidentified
Australian burials: |
1
|
|
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|
Wholly Unidentified
burials |
76
|
|
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|
Total Unidentified
burials |
171
|
|
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Total
burials |
1295
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Those with awards in this cemetery
Gnr. A. Anderson M.M., 1st Canadian Div. Ammunition Col., Canadian
Field Artillery. Died 3rd Oct. 1916. 1.C.52
Sgt. William Arthur Birkett M.M., Cross of Karageorge 1st Classe with
Swords (Serbia). Div. Signal Coy. New Zealand Engineers. Killed
in action 28th March 1918 aged 24. 3.A.2
L/Cpl. T. Dornan M.M., "C" Coy. 2nd Bn. Gordon Highlanders.
Died of wounds 3rd April 1917 aged 41. 2.G.9
Maj. R. G. Gordon D.S.O., Lowland Heavy Bty. attd. 12th Heavy
Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 26th March 1918 aged 39. Born at
Valparaiso. 5.C.6
Lt. Colin Hally M.C., New Zealand Machine Gun Bn. Killed in action
6th April 1918. 4.G.3
Pte. G. Hanson M.M., 12th Bn. York & Lancaster Regt. Died 1st
July 1916. 4.R.6
Sgt. G. Harrison, Mentioned in Despatches. 13th Bn. East Yorkshire
Regt. Died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 23. A schoolmaster. 1.G.41
Pte. B. Hartop M.M., 1st Bn. Essex Regt. Died 11th Sept. 1918.
2.F.3
Maj. George Henry Holland M.C., Mentioned in Despatches. 15th
(North Auckland) Coy. 1st Bn. Auckland Regt. N.Z.E.F. Killed in action
15th May 1918 aged 32. 4.K.9
Bmdr. P. Hughes D.C.M., M.M., 29th Bty. 42nd Brig. Royal Field
Artillery. Died 1st Nov. 1916. 1.E.47
2nd Lt. Henry Myrddin Jones, Mentioned in Despatches. 10th Bn.
Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Killed in action near Beaumont Hamel 13th Nov.
1916 aged 25. 1.G.69
Sgt. J. Massey M.M., "B" Coy. 2nd Bn. South Staffordshire
Regt. Died 7th Sept. 1916 aged 29. 1.F.14
Sgt. H. Roberts, Mentioned in Despatches. 120th Bty. 27th Brig.
Royal Field Artillery. Died 5th Sept. 1918. 5.F.1
Sgt. W. Scott, Mentioned in Despatches. 41st Bty. 42nd Brig.
Royal Field Artillery. Died 15th Nov. 1916 aged 30. 1.E.9
2nd Lt. John Reginald Stagg D.C.M., 27th attd. 17th Bn. Middlesex
Regt. Killed in action 17th Sept. 1916 aged 37. 1.F.43
Pte. Harold Archibald Stephenson M.M., "C" Coy. 2nd Bn.
Honourable Artillery Company. Died of wounds 6th April 1917 aged 25.
4.F.8
Cpl. F. T. Weldon M.M., 1st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers. Died
23rd Dec. 1916. 1.H.49
C.S.M. C. W. Wheeler D.C.M., 4th Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Died 6th
Nov. 1916 aged 22. 1.E.32
Cpl. Arthur William Wood, Croix de Guerre (Belgium). 4th Australian
Light Trench Mortar Battery. Killed in action 30th March 1918 aged 22.
4.I.3
Others buried in this cemetery
Lt. Frederick Jacob Brooks, 4th attd. 2nd Bn. South Staffordshire
Regt. Died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 21. Native of Cape Town, South Africa.
1.G.66
Pte. William Ernest Cox, 12th Bn. East Yorkshire Regt. Killed
in action 13th Nov. 1916 aged 36. Also served in the South African Campaign.
4.Q.8
Spr. Arthur James Cullingham. Div. Sig. Coy. New Zealand Engineers.
Killed in action 28th March 1918 aged 37. Served with the Royal Engineers
in the Somaliland Expedition and the South African Campaign. 4.A.1
2nd Lt. Rosser Fellowes Marriott Dean. 4th Bn. Royal Warwickshire
Regt. attd. 93rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action 1st July 1916
aged 33. Educated at Wellington College and Oriel College, Oxford. Acted
as Intelligence Officer in Kenya Colony in 1914. Returned to England,
invalided with malaria. Rejoined in 1915. 1.D.14
L/Cpl. George Kenneth Duff. Div. Signal Coy. New Zealand Engineers.
Killed in action 28th March 1918 aged 25. Also served in Egypt and Gallipoli.
3.A.1
2nd Lt. Leslie Charles Focken (served as Fawkner). 15th Sqdn. Royal
Flying Corps. Killed in aerial combat on the Somme 26th Oct. 1916 aged
21. Served in Gallipoli with 5th Bn. Australian Inf. Born at Hong Kong.
1.E.60
Pte. John Abbotson Harper. 18th Bn. West Yorkshire. Died 1st
Jul 1916 aged 25. Now known to be commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial,
France.
2nd Lt. Wilfrid George Hollands. 7th attd. 4th Bn. Royal Fusiliers.
Killed in action near Serre 12th Oct. 1916 aged 23. Student of Guys
Hospital, London. Enlisted in Middlesex Regt. Sept. 1914. Received Commission
the following year and went to France April 1916. Regimental Bombing
Officer. 1.C.40
Pte. Severin Emil Johannessen. 16th Bn. Australian Inf. Killed
in action 5th April 1918 aged 35. Native of Hiso, Norway. 4.N.1
2nd Lt. Ronald George Pugh. 3rd Bn. King's Shropshire Light Inf.
attd. 7th Bn. North Staffordshire Regt. Killed in action 19th Aug. 1916
aged 23. Previously wounded at Gallipoli. 5.N.9
Pte Herbert Seaward, 1st Bn, Canterbury Regiment, NZEF - 44599.Killed
in action 7th June 1918 during his first day in action. Aged 23, Son
of George and Adelaide Seaward of Kaiapoi, New Zealand. Herbert was
originally buried in the White City Cemetery near Albert, but his body
was exhumed from there in 1920 and interred at Euston Road. His parents
were informed that "the exhumation was carried out with all reverence".
IV.M. 3.
Sgt. John William Streets. 12th
Bn. York & Lancaster Regt. Killed in action 1st July 1916 while
attempting to rescue one of his men from no man's Land. Aged 31. Refusing
entry into grammar school in order to support his younger twin brothers,
he became a miner, eventually writing a book about coal-mining. The
inscription on his grave, taken from one of his war poems from "The
Undying Splendour, published in May 1917 reads, "I fell but
yielded not my English soul: that lives our here beneath the battle's
roll" He was from Whitwell in Derbyshire.
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Sgt. George Winskill,
6/1431. New Zealand Machine Gun Bn. Killed by a sniper 27th March,
1918. Aged 23 Son of G. Winskill, of Bank St., Amberley, Canterbury.
New Zealand . V. D. 3.
George was originally buried in an isolated trench in the Northern
Avenue
Communication Trench near Colincamps - he was later interred in
the Euston
Road Cemetery.
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