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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
Information |
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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. British burials from November, 1914, to September, 1916, took
place in the old Communal Cemetery, at first in the two French
Military plots, and later in four plots in the North corner of the
Cemetery.
In July, 1916, by agreement with the town
authorities, a site was added adjoining the four plots; and in this
Extension are buried 1352 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 227 from
Australia, 107 from Canada, 33 from New Zealand, 8 from South
Africa, 3 from the British West Indies, 2 from Newfoundland, 2 from
Guernsey, and 1 from India; 12 members of Queen Mary's Army
Auxiliary Corps, 1 Merchant Seaman; 5 British civilians; 1
Portuguese soldier; and 2 unidentified soldiers. Nine of the
Q.M.A.A.C. were killed in an air raid on the 30th May, 1918. The
Graves in Plots III and IV, and at the ends of rows in Plots I and
II, are double.
The Communal Cemetery and the Extension stand on
high ground overlooking Abbeville from the North. The Extension is
entered from the Communal Cemetery or from the side lane. It covers
9864 square yards, and is surrounded by a thorn hedge and a low
concrete wall, except on the side of the Communal Cemetery, where a
grass bank is climbed by two flights of stone steps and terminated
by brick and stone bastions. The Register of the Extension records
particulars of 1755 British and Dominion burials. |
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