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Authuille is a village 5 kilometres north of
Albert. Authuille Military Cemetery is on the south side of the village. The
Cemetery is signposted on the main road (D159) through the village.
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| Authuille is a village
three miles North of Albert; and Authuille Military Cemetery is on the South side
of the village, between the road to Albert and the river Ancre. The village was
held by British troops from the summer of 1915 to March 1918, when it was
captured in the German Offensive on the Somme; it was ruined by shell fire even
before that date, and it was "adopted" by the Urban District of Leyton
in the 1920s. The Military Cemetery was used by Field Ambulances and fighting
units from August 1915 to December 1916, and in 1917 and 1918 by Indian Labour
Companies. It contains the graves of 433 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 12
from India and three from South Africa; six men of the Indian Labour Corps; and
one German prisoner. The graves of two other German soldiers have been removed.
The unnamed graves are 38 in number, and special memorials are erected to 18
soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. |
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