Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison (Somme) |
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Details Contalmaison is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, six kilometres East North-east of Albert. The Sunken Road from which these cemeteries (see 2nd Canadian Cemetery, Sunken Road, Contalmaison) is named is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road. The cemeteries lie in the fields a little East of this road, and 124 metres apart; the site was formerly wooded, and Sunken Road Cemetery is in the "Bios Défrichés". and the 2nd Canadian Cemetery in the Vallée du Bios Derrieux". They were made in July - October 1916, during the fighting in the Somme offensive. Sunken Road Cemetery contains the graves of 148 Canadian and 61 Australian soldiers and five men of the Royal Artillery; three Australian and one Canadian are unidentified, and three Australian graves, which cannot be located, are represented by special memorials. It covers an area of 1,210 square metres, without the access road. It is enclosed by a low red brick wall. The Graves of two German soldiers, buried by the Germans at the end of March, 1918, have been removed. Number of burials by Unit
The layout of the Cemetery Those having awards in this cemetery |