HANGARD COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Hangard
Somme
France
General Directions: Hangard is a village 5 kilometres south of Villers-Bretonneux. Hangard Communal Cemetery is a little east of the village on the north side of the road to Demuin and the Extension is on the west side of the Communal Cemetery.
At the end of March 1918, Hangard was at the junction of the French and Commonwealth forces defending Amiens. From 4 to 25 April, the village and Hangard Wood were the scene of incessant fighting, in which the line was held and the 18th Division were particularly heavily engaged. On 8 August, the village was cleared by the 1st and 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. The original extension to the communal cemetery was made by the Canadian Corps in August 1918. It consisted of 51 graves in the present Plot I. It was greatly increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in, mainly from the battlefields of Hangard and Hangard Wood and from smaller cemeteries.
Casualty Details: UK 444, Canada 72, Australia 47, Germany 1, Total Burials: 564
7520 Private
Fred Petty
34th Bn. Australian Infantry
A. I. F.
30/03/1918, aged 43.
Plot 11. H. 11.
Born 13th June, 1874 in Eccleshill, Yorkshire England. Late of Croydon, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Enlisted for active service abroad at Victoria Barracks, Sydney NSW, Australia on 13th March, 1917. Service No: 7520. He was a member of the 34th Battalion Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
He sailed for England on 10th May, 1917 and then left England for France on 3rd December, 1917.
Private Fred Petty was killed in action 30th March, 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Picture courtesy of Granddaughters Dawn & Deidre & Great Granddaughter Julie.
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