Hem Communal Cemetery
Somme, France

Picture courtesy of Barry Cuttell

Hem is a village in the Department of the Somme on the south side of the Authie river, on the D925 Doullens (2 kilometres) to Abbeville (40 kilometres) road.


The majority of the burials were carried out by the 2/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station between September 1916 and February 1917. Hem Communal Cemetery contains 32 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. 


No. of Identified Casualties: 32

 

 

Burials by Regiment:
Border Regt.   4
Royal Field Artillery	2
Royal Engineers   2
British West Indies Regt.   2
Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2
Seaforth Highlanders	2
Australian Regiments	1
Bedfordshire Regt.	1
Cambridgeshire Regt.	1
Dorsetshire Regt.	 1             1
Gloucestershire Regt.	1
Lancashire Fusiliers	1
Northumberland Fusiliers 1	
Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.) 1	
Royal Army Medical Corps  1
Royal Army Service Corps  1	
Royal Berkshire Regt. 1
Royal Garrison Artillery  1	
Royal Scots  1	
Sherwood Foresters (Notts.& Derby Regt.) 1	
South Staffordshire Regt.  1	
South Wales Borderers  1
 

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