Pargny British Cemetery
Pargny, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France
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Pargny British Cemetery was made after the Armistice by concentrations from the surrounding Somme battlefields; the majority of the burials are those of officers and men of the 61st (South Midland) and 8th Divisions, whose resistance at the Somme crossings on the 24th March, 1918, materially helped to delay the German advance during the "Kaiserschlact," the last major German offensive of World War I.
There are now over 600 WWI casualties commemorated at this site. Of these, more than three-quarters are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 16 soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of two officers of the Royal Air Force, buried in Pertain Military Cemetery, whose graves were later destroyed by shell fire. Certain graves in Plot III, Row E, identified as a group but not individually, are marked with headstones inscribed: "Buried near this spot". The cemetery covers an area of 2,509 square metres.
Pargny British Cemetery was made after the Armistice by concentrations from the surrounding Somme battlefields; the majority of the burials are those of officers and men of the 61st (South Midland) and 8th Divisions, whose resistance at the Somme crossings on the 24th March, 1918, materially helped to delay the German advance during the "Kaiserschlact," the last major German offensive of World War I.
There are now over 600 WWI casualties commemorated at this site. Of these, more than three-quarters are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 16 soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of two officers of the Royal Air Force, buried in Pertain Military Cemetery, whose graves were later destroyed by shell fire. Certain graves in Plot III, Row E, identified as a group but not individually, are marked with headstones inscribed: "Buried near this spot". The cemetery covers an area of 2,509 square metres.
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- Added: 11 Sep 2006
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2188808
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