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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 Military Cemetery is in a secluded
position on the West side of the village. It was begun by the 48th (South
Midland) Division in August, 1915, and used by fighting units and Field
Ambulances (particularly those of the 56th (London) Division) until
the spring of 1917; it was reopened in 1918.. The conditions of burial
explain the irregularity of the rows.
The Military Cemetery contains the graves of
654 soldiers from the Untied Kingdom and 53 from New Zealand; and three
German soldiers are buried in Plot I, Row V. The unnamed graves are
45 in number, and special memorials are erected to 17 soldiers from
the Untied Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. The graves
of two American soldiers have been removed from the South-west corner.
Number of burials by Unit
| New Zealand burials |
53
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Royal Field Artillery
|
50
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| Ox. & Bucks. Light
Infantry |
49
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1/3rd Bn. London Regt.
Royal Fusiliers |
39
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| Middlesex Regt. |
38
|
|
Royal Berkshire Regt.
|
38
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| Gloucestershire Regt.
|
34
|
|
Royal Warwickshire
Regt. |
30
|
| 1/1st
Bn. London Regt. Royal Fusiliers |
28
|
|
Royal
Garrison Artillery |
23
|
| 1/2nd Bn. London Regt.
Royal Fusiliers |
22
|
|
1/4th Bn. London Regt.
Royal Fusiliers |
22
|
| Royal Engineers |
21
|
|
Worcestershire Regt. |
21
|
| 1/9th Bn. London Regt.
Queen Victoria's Rifles |
20
|
|
1/14th Bn. London
Regt. London Scottish |
19
|
| York & Lancaster
Regt. |
19
|
|
Cheshire Regt. |
17
|
| King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry |
15
|
|
1/12th Bn. London
Regt. The Rangers |
13
|
| 1/5th Bn. London Regt.
London Rifle Brigade |
11
|
|
Welsh Regt. |
11
|
| King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
10
|
|
East Yorkshire Regt.
|
10
|
| 1/16th Bn. London
Regt. Queen's Westminster Rifles |
8
|
|
Rifle Brigade |
6
|
| North Staffordshire
Regt. |
6
|
|
Manchester Regt. |
6
|
| Royal
Sussex Regt. |
5
|
|
West Yorkshire
Regt. |
5
|
| King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regt. |
5
|
|
Machine Gun Corps
- Infantry |
3
|
| South Staffordshire
Regt. |
2
|
|
1/21st Bn. London
Regt. First Surrey Rifles |
2
|
| Yorkshire Regt - Green
Howards |
2
|
|
East Surrey Regt. |
2
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| Royal Army Medical
Corps |
2
|
|
Cameronians - Scottish
Rifles |
2
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| Highland Light Infantry
|
2
|
|
Wiltshire Regt. |
2
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| 1/22nd
Bn. London Regt. The Queen's |
1
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Sherwood
Foresters - Notts. & Derbys. Regt. |
1
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| Suffolk Regt. |
1
|
|
Scots Guards |
1
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| Royal
Marine Artillery |
1
|
|
2/7th
Bn. London Regt. |
1
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| Lincolnshire Regt.
|
1
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|
Royal Flying Corps |
1
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| Duke of Cornwall's
Light Infantry |
1
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|
Durham Light Infantry |
1
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| Gordon Highlanders |
1
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|
King's Liverpool Regt. |
1
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| Argyll & Sutherland
Highlanders |
1
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| Identified burials
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707
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| Unidentified UK
burials: |
45
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| Total burials |
752
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Those having awards in this cemetery
Sgt. Sydney James Andrews M.M.,
3rd Bn. London Regt. Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action 5th July 1916
aged 23. 4.E.7
Sgt. T. Bowyer D.C.M., 18th Bn. Middlesex Regt. Died 13th Oct.
1916. 4.F.6
C.S.M. R. Cowell M.M., 7th Bn. East Yorkshire Regt. Killed in
action 18th Oct. 1916 aged 25. 4.J.5
Sgt. H. W. Foster M.M., 2nd Bn. South Staffordshire Regt. Died
17th Sept. 1916. 4.C.1
Sgt. Reginald Clifford Hebberd M.M., 4th Bn. London Regt. Royal
Fusiliers. Killed in action 1st July 1916 aged 23. 4.M.50
Cpl. Robert Weston Jesson D.C.M., 5th Warwick Bty., 4th South
Midland Brig., Royal Field Artillery. Died 20th Jan. 1916 aged
21. Native of Market Harborough. 1.N.19
2nd Lt. John Skelton Clark King D.C.M., 1/4th Bn. Ox. & Bucks.
Light Inf. Killed in action 3rd May 1916 aged 28. 1.D.18
Pte. Robert Stanley Milburn D.C.M., 1/5th York & Lancaster
Regt. Died 22 Oct. 1916 aged 27. 1.R.4
C.S.M. T. Waldron, Mentioned in Despatches. 1/6th Bn. Royal Warwickshire
Regt. Died 14th Oct. 1916. 1.U.5
Others buried in this cemetery
Lt. Edward Mervyn Carre, 8th Bn. Lincolnshire Regt. attd. Royal
Flying Corps. Killed in action whilst flying on 16th Oct. 1916
aged 22. Son of the Rev. A. A. Carre, Rector of Smarden, Kent. 1.H.6
2nd Lt. Dudley Collins Francis. "A" Coy. 5th Bn. York
& Lancaster Regt. Died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 29. Native of Devonport.
Returned in 1914 from South Africa and joined 18th (Public Schools)
Bn. Royal Fusiliers. 1.R.6
Cpl. Charles William Maru, 1st Bn. Wellington Bn. N.Z.E.F. Died
of wounds 4th May 1918 aged 25. Also served at Gallipoli.
1.J.7
Capt. Richard John Spotswood Seddon, 3rd Bn. N.Z. Rifle Brigade.
Killed in action at Bapaume 21st August 1918 aged 37.
Born at Westland, New Zealand. Held a commission in the South African
campaign. Son of Rt. Hon. Richard John Seddon
P.C., LL.D., Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1893 to 1906. 1.F.1
2nd Lt. Hugh Stanley Wilson, 8th Bn. Worcestershire Regt. Died
14th Sept. 1915 aged 30. Son of the Rev. Canon James M.
Wilson, D.D., (Vice Dean of Worcester). Hugh was a Cambridge graduate
and Assistant Master at Rugby.
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