ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY

Miraumont

Somme

France

General Directions: Miraumont is a village about 14.5 kilometres north-north-east of Albert and the Cemetery is some 3 kilometres south of the village on the east side of the road to Courcelette (D107). The cemetery is signposted in the centre of Miraumont.

The villages of Miraumont and Pys were occupied on 24-25 February 1917 following the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line. They were retaken by the Germans on 25 March 1918, but recovered by the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division on the following 24 August. Adanac Military Cemetery (the name was formed by reversing the name "Canada") was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries surrounding Miraumont, and particularly from the Canadian battlefields round Courcelette. One grave (Plot IV, Row D, Grave 30) was left in its original position.

Victoria Cross: Serjeant, Samuel Forsyth, VC, No.3 Field Company, New Zealand Engineers, killed on 24/08/1918 by a sniper and buried in plot I. I. 39. also buried in this cemetery is Piper, James Clelland Richardson, VC, 16th Bn. Canadian (Manitoba) Regiment, killed in action on 09/10/1916 and buried in plot III. F. 36.

Casualty Details: UK 1986, Canada 1072, Australia 53, New Zealand 70, South Africa 5, Total Burials: 3186

8/3206 Serjeant

Arthur Kallstrom

(Served as Charles Carson)

2nd Bn. Otago Regiment

N. Z. E. F.

03/09/1918

Picture courtesy of grand niece, Christina Mitchell

Plan of the cemetery

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