Redan Ridge Cemetery, No. 2., Beaumont-Hamel (Somme)

Details

Redan Ridge Cemetery No.2 is on lower ground, about 100 yards West of the the Old German front line. It contains the graves of 279 soldiers from the United Kingdom, who fell (with one exception) in July and November, 1916, and belonged to the 4th, 29th and 2nd Divisions. The unnamed graves number 124.

Number of burials by Unit

Hampshire Regiment
57
Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
1
Lancashire Fusiliers
22
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
1
East Lancashire Regiment
21
King's Royal Rifle Corps
1
Highland Light Infantry
21
Machine Gun Corps
1
Royal Fusiliers
9
Middlesex Regiment
1
Ox & Bucks Light Infantry
3
Royal Field Artillery
1
Somerset Light Infantry
3
Rifle Brigade
1
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
3
Worcestershire Regiment
1
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
2
York & Lancaster Regiment
1
Royal Scots
2
Unidentified
124
Border Regiment
1
Total number of burials
279

Awards

Sergeant Frederick Joseph Allsworth M.M. 16387, 1st Btn Hampshire Regt, K.I.A. 1st July 1916, aged 42, A. 18

Corporal G. Mills M.M. 6599, 1st Btn Hampshire Regt, K.I.A. 1st July 1916, aged 36. A. 17.

Sergeant Alfred Edmund, M.M., 8867, 1st Btn Hampshire Regt, K.I.A. 1st July 1916, aged 22. A. 71.