Corbehem Communal Cemetery

Pas de Calais, France

Location Information: Corbehem is a small town some 7 kilometres south of Douai. The Cemetery is the old one situated in the town (Rue de la Gare). The Commonwealth war graves are situated at the rear end of the right hand boundary wall.

Number of Identified Casualties: 7

 

In this one plot are buried 6 known Australians, all of whom died 1st May 1917, one unknown Australian soldier and one airman:

 2nd Lt. W G T CLIFTON, Ox. & Bucks. Light Inf. attached RFC, died 31st March 1917, aged 23
Pte. George Arthur FRASER, 48th Bn. Australian Inf. 1st May 1917, aged 23
L/Cpl. Owen GODDARD, 4th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps, 1st May 1917, aged 23
Cpl. Charles Walter McENTEE, 4th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps, 1st May 1917, aged 29
Pte. Thorold TOLL, 4th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps, 1st May 1917, aged 23
Pte. C. WEBB, 4th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps, 1st May 1917
Pte. Thomas WEEDON, 15th Bn. Australian Inf., 1st May 1917, aged 29

 

 

 

Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell

 

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