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World War 1, Europe, France, Amiens, Mericourt

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1918

Overview

Aerial view showing Front Line near Mericourt

Historical information

Mericourt-l'Abbe is a village approximately 19 kilometres north-east of Amiens and 10 kilometres south-west of Albert.
The Mericourt Communal Cemetery is a little east of the village and the Extension is to the south of the Communal Cemetery. There are 121 Australians buried in the Extension.
Heilly Station Cemetery is about 2 kilometres south-west of Mericourt-l'Abbe, on the south side of the road to Corbie. The cemetery was begun in May 1916 and was used by the three medical units until April 1917. From March to May 1918, it was used by Australian units, and in the early autumn for further hospital burials when the 20th Casualty Clearing Station was there briefly in August and September 1918. The last burial was made in May 1919. There are now 2,890 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Only 12 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 21 casualties whose graves in the cemetery could not be exactly located. The cemetery also contains 83 German graves. The burials in this cemetery were carried out under extreme pressure and many of the graves are either too close together to be marked individually, or they contain multiple burials. Some headstones carry as many as three sets of casualty details, and in these cases, regimental badges have had to be omitted. Instead, these badges, 117 in all, have been carved on a cloister wall on the north side of the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-32-P1990.128.1l

Item type

Photographs

Themes

War and Conflict

World War 1

Year

1918

Geotag

50.389139903228, 2.8593161230965

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