3624 x 2389 px | 30,7 x 20,2 cm | 12,1 x 8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
27 août 2012
Lieu:
near Albert ,Somme, Picardy, France.
Informations supplémentaires:
The Ovillers Military Cemetery was begun before the capture of Ovillers, as a battle cemetery behind a dressing station. It was used until March 1917, by which time it contained 143 graves, about half the present Plot I. The cemetery was increased after the Armistice when Commonwealth and French graves where brought in, mainly from the battlefields of Pozieres, Ovillers, La Boisselle and Contalmaison. There are now 3, 440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2, 480 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 24 casualties believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 35 casualties, buried in Mash Valley Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed in later fighting. The cemetery also contains 120 French war graves. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
