Hunter's Cemetery Beaumont-Hamel (Somme)

Beaumont-Hamel is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme. It was attacked in vain on 1st July, 1916, and captured by the 51st (Highland) and 63rd (Royal Naval) Divisions on the following 13th November.

Hunters Cemetery (the origin of the name is not known) is, infact, a great shell hole, in which 46 soldiers of the 51st Division, who fell in the capture of Beaumont-Hamel, were buried after the battle. It stands at the upper end of "Y" Ravine, within the Newfoundland Memorial Park. It is enclosed by a low stone rubble wall; the Cross is in the middle, on a block of stone one metre high; and the headstones are let into the sides of this block.

Those buried in this Cemetery (awards in bold)

Pte Armstrong . J. 1504 M.M. 6th Black Watch, died 13th Nov 1916 aged 18. Grave 1
Pte Brady . J. 6180 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916, aged 29. Grave 13
Pte Clayton . J. 4846 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916, aged 26. Grave 15
Pte Goodfellow . J. 4272 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916. 11
Pte Gourlay . D.W. 1914 9th Royal Scots - Lothian Regt. 16th Nov. 1916 aged 30. Grave 16
Sgt Halley . B.C.T. 3284 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916, aged 21. Grave 24
L/Cpl Kemp A. 1474 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 22
Pte Kerr . A. 1641 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 25
Pte Lindsay . W. 6805 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 38
Pte McCallum . D. 2904 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 19 Grave 19
Cpl McGregor . D. 2801 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 9
Cpl MacLaren . I.D. 1961 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 22 Grave 37
Sgt Martin . D.H. 3463 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 20 Grave 20
Pte Miles . A. 6763 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 17
Pte Milne . R. 5182 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 21 Grave 32
L/Cpl. Muir W. 2416 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 37 Grave 43
Pte Owen . J. 3224 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 26
Pte Paterson . R. 5671 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 24 Grave 31
Cpl Pirie . H. 6918 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 31 Grave 7
Pte Potter . W. 6211 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 14
Pte Reader . W. 3599 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 21
Pte Richardson . J. 1813 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 35
Pte Richardson . T.A. 1253 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 5
Pte Ritchie . W. 4266 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 19 Grave 34
Pte Robbie . W. 3105 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 18 Grave 27
Pte Roper . G. 4867 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 27 Grave 41
Pte Saunders . J.B. 5689 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 22 Grave 4
Pte Scobie . J. 2962 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 38 Grave 10
L/Cpl. Sinclair T. 5632 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916aged 20 Grave 3
Lt Smith . G.S. 153rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps - Infantry died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 21 Grave 2
Pte Smith . J. 5152 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 40
Pte Smith . J.M. 1940 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 42
L/Cpl Stephen . J.A.N. 806 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 23 Grave 28
Pte Stewart . C. 6922 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 19 Grave 44
Pte Thomson . R. 3249 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 21 Grave 33
Pte Thomson . W. 1700 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 20 Grave 39
Pte Thomson . W. 2628 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 19 Grave 12
L/Cpl. Tough W. 2441 5th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 21 Grave 46
2nd Lt Wilson . J.A. 5th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 26 Grave 6
Pte Wilson . J. 6834 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 23 Grave 8
Pte Wood . C.A. 4789 7th Black Watch died13th Nov. 1916 aged 22 Grave 36

Number of burials by Unit

Black Watch
32
  Gordon Highlanders
7
Machine Gun Corps Inf.
1
  Royal Scots
1
Identified burials
41
     
Unidentified UK burials:
5
     
Total burials
46