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Hebuterne is a village and commune in the South
part of the Department of the Pas-de Calais, nine miles north of Albert.
The village gave its name to a severe action fought by the French on
the 10th-13th June 1915, in the "Second Battle of Artois".
It was taken over by British troops from the French in the same summer,
and it remained subject to shell fire during the Battles of the Somme.
It was again the scene of fighting in March, 1918, when the New Zealand
Division held up the advancing enemy; and during the following summer
it was partly in German hands.
Hebuterne Communal Cemetery contains in the South-West
part, two Plots of British graves, aminly of the 20th (Light) and 31st
Divisions. They contain the bodies of 56 soldiers from the United Kingdom
(including six unidentified), buried in July 1915 - January 1917, and
two Australian soldiers buried in April, 1918.
Number of burials by Unit
| York & Lancaster
Regt. |
9
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Royal Field Artillery
|
8
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| King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
8
|
|
Royal Berkshire Regt.
|
6
|
| Royal Fusiliers -
City of London Regt. |
5
|
|
Royal Warwickshire
Regt. |
4
|
| Rifle Brigade |
3
|
|
Welsh Regt. |
2
|
| Australian
Burials |
2
|
|
Royal
Welsh Fusiliers |
1
|
| Royal Engineers |
1
|
|
Essex Regt. |
1
|
| East Lancashire Regt.
|
1
|
|
Argyll & Sutherland
Highlanders |
1
|
| Identified burials
|
52
|
|
|
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| Unidentified UK
burials: |
6
|
|
|
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| Total burials |
58
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Those having awards in this cemetery
2nd Lt. Percy Watkiss Fisher D.C.M.,
22nd Bn. Royal Fusiliers - City of London Regt. Died 12th Sept. 1916
aged 34. Native of Stratford-on-Avon. A.8
Capt. Harold Quest M.C., "A" Coy. 14th Bn. York &
Lancaster Regt. Killed in action 3rd Nov. 1916 aged 22. Native of Wakefield.
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