Premont British Cemetery  
           
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Premont is a village some 19.5 kilometres south-east of Cambrai on the road to Guise and a little south-east of the main straight road from St Quentin to Le Cateau. Premont British Cemetery is 1.5 kilometres south-east of the village on the south side of the road to Bohain.

Cemetery Information
Premont is a village in the Department of the Aisne, about midway between Cambrai and Guise. The village was captured by the 30th American Division on the 8th October 191 8. Premont British Cemetery is a mile South-East of the village, on the South-West side of the road to Bohain. It was made and used by four Casualty Clearing Stations (the 20th, 50th, 55th and 61st), which came to Bohain in October 1918, and it was closed in the following December. Some years later 165 graves were added to it: 155 from Bohain Station Military Cemetery, six from Seboncourt Communal Cemetery, and four from a site near Honnechy.

The British Cemetery now contains the graves of 521 soldiers and airmen from the United Kingdom and seven from Australia; six soldiers from Canada, one from South Africa and one from India; and 36 German prisoners. Ten of these graves are unnamed. The British Cemetery covers an area of 1,826 square yards. It stands above the road, with a wood on the East side but with considerable views to the North, West and South.

Among the burial grounds brought here were:

BOHAIN STATION MILITARY CEMETERY was on the West side of the cross-road immediately West of Bohain railway station. It was made by the Germans, but one plot of 47 graves was added by the 11th Essex and other British units in October, 1918. It contained in all 806 German graves, 155 British, 14 Russian, twelve French, one Italian and one Rumanian.
SEBONCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY contained the graves of six soldiers from the United Kingdom buried by the enemy in January, March and April, 1918.

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