BLARGIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Blargies
Oise
France
General Directions: Blargies is a village and commune in the Department of the Oise. Travel south on the D316 and on entering the village of Blargies take the first left. The Communal Cemetery will be found 500 metres along this small road. The Cemetery Extension stands on the north-east side of the Communal Cemetery, in an old apple orchard.
Blargies became in 1916 an important centre of British and native labour attached to the dumps and depots at Abancourt; and in the same year it was found necessary to open an Extension of the Communal Cemetery for the burial of men who died in the hospitals of the Camp. The Extension was used until 1920. The grave of a Bermudan soldier was brought in from the Communal Cemetery after the 1918 Armistice; and those of twelve German prisoners, four Italian labourers and one American Y.M.C.A. worker were removed to other burial grounds.
Casualty Details: UK 184, Australia 1, New Zealand 1, South Africa 7, India 46, Total Burials: 239
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