GUARDS' CEMETERY
Lesboeufs
Somme
France
General Directions: Lesboeufs is a village 16 kilometres north-east of Albert,. From Arras take the N17 south. Then take the D19 to Lesboeufs. Take the right fork by the Church through Le Transloy to Lesboeufs village. Then take the C5 towards Ginchy. The Cemetery is on the right hand side.
Lesboeufs was attacked by the Guards Division on 15 September 1916 and captured by them on the 25th. It was lost on 24 March 1918 during the great German offensive, after a stubborn resistance by part of the 63rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps, and recaptured on 29 August by the 10th Bn. South Wales Borderers. At the time of the Armistice, the cemetery consisted of only 40 graves (now Plot I), mainly those of officers and men of the 2nd Grenadier Guards who died on 25 September 1916, but it was very greatly increased when graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries round Lesboeufs.
Casualty Details: UK 2911, Canada 5, Australia 209, New Zealand 11, Total Burials: 3136
17886 Private
F. W. Goodall
7th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
26/12/1916, aged 21.
Son of John Thomas and Jane Ellen Goodall, of Hampton Inn, Herne Bay, Kent.
Plot V. S. 3.
Picture courtesy of John Goodall
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