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| The town of Abbeville is on the main road from
Paris to Boulogne (N1), about 80 kilometres south of Boulogne. The
communal cemetery and communal cemetery extension are located on the
left hand side of the road when leaving the town in a north-east
direction for Drucat. CWGC direction signs will be found within the
cemetery. Enter the Communal Cemetery by the left hand side main
gate and follow CWGC signs within the Cemetery. |
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| Cemetery
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| Abbeville, an old and important town near the mouth
of the Somme, lies on the main road and the main railway line
between Boulogne and Paris. It was during the greater part of the
war, under various titles, the headquarters of the British Lines of
Communication; and three Hospitals were stationed there from 1915 to
1919. The Communal Cemetery is on high ground overlooking Abbeville
from the North. The first British burials took place there in
November 1914, to October 1915, in the two French military plots.
Plots III., IV., V. and VI. of the Communal Cemetery are in the
North corner next to the extension, and include burials from October
1915, to September 1916.
The six plots contain the bodies of 739 soldiers
from the United Kingdom, 13 from Australia, 10 from South Africa,
eight from Canada, one from New Zealand, one from Newfoundland, and
one from India, and one British civilian; and in the German plot are
buried 449 Prisoners of War who died between October, 1914, and
October, 1919. The Extension forms the subject of a separate
Register. The Register of the Communal Cemetery records particulars
of 774 British and Dominion burials |
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