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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.
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| 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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Cities WW1 Cemeteries website ŠPaul Reed 2006-2007
Email: info@ww1cemeteries.co.uk
Site Last Updated: 19 August 2008
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