AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Aubigny
Somme
France
GPS: 2.59079,50.34781
General Directions: Aubigny-en-Artois is a village approximately 15 kilometres north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol (N39). From the N39 turn onto the D75 towards the village of Aubigny-en-Artois. The Cemetery lies south on a road leading from the centre of the village, and the Extension is behind it.
From March 1916 to the Armistice, Aubigny was held by Commonwealth troops and burials were made in the extension until September 1918. The 42nd Casualty Clearing Station buried in it during the whole period, the 30th in 1916 and 1917, the 24th and 1st Canadian in 1917 (during the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps) and the 57th in 1918.
Victoria Cross: Private, Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, VC, DCM, MM, 38th Bn. Canadian Infantry ( Eastern Ontario Regiment). Died of wounds 18/09/1918 and buried in plot IV. B. 9.
Casualty Details: UK 2050, Canada 665, Australia 4, New Zealand 2, South Africa 50, Germany 64, France 225, Total Burials: 3060
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Second Lieutenant Harry Edward Martin 60th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps 16/11/1916, aged 22 Plot V. A. 21 Son of Alfred Amos Martin and Elizabeth Ann Martin, of Avro Cottage, Marlborough, Wilts. Native of Croydon, Surrey.
S/12932 Private Alexander Ewan 2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders 13/04/1917, aged 19. Son of James and Marion Ewan, of "Craigrothie," Aberdour Rd., Burntisland, Fifeshire. Plot II. C. 34. Picture courtesy of nephew, Brian MCartney |
Plan of Cemetery
Cemetery plan courtesy of Barry Cuttell
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