Serain Communal Cemetery Extension  
           
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Serain is a village in the Department of Aisne, 19.5 kilometres south-east of Cambrai, and 6.5 kilometres west of Busigny Railway Station.

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Serain is a village in the Department of the Aisne, twelve miles South-East of Cambrai, and four miles West of Busigny. It was captured by the 66th (East Lancashire) Division on the 8th October 1918. 

The Communal Cemetery was extended by the Germans on the North-West side, and in October 1918, the present British Extension was made on the North West side of the German. After the Armistice the German Extension was removed; 264 German, seven Russian graves and one American were taken to other cemeteries; and 32 British graves (from the German Extension and other German cemeteries) were brought into the British Extension. The Extension (now detached from the Communal Cemetery) contains the graves of 102 soldiers from the United Kingdom, four from Australia, one from Canada and one from South Africa, and two German prisoners; 18 of the British graves are unnamed. It covers an area of 754 square yardsand stands on relatively high ground, among cultivated fields and pastures.

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