HERMIES BRITISH CEMETERY
Hermies
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Hermies is a town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, approximately 3.5 kilometres south of the road from Bapaume to Cambrai, (N30). From the N30 take the D34 for 3.2 kilometres to its junction with the D5E where the first CWGC sign is situated. The Cemetery lies on the right side of the road 150 metres from the junction.
Hermies village was seized on the morning of the 9th April, 1917, by a surprise attack of the 2nd and 3rd Australian Infantry Battalions. It was held against the advancing Germans on the 22nd March, 1918, by the 17th Division, but evacuated on the following day; and it was retaken in September, 1918. It was later "adopted", with Havrincourt, by the County Borough of Huddersfield. The cemetery was made in April-December, 1917, by fighting units and Field Ambulances.
Victoria Cross: Buried within the cemetery in Row F.10. is Brigadier General, Roland Boys Bradford, VC, MC, 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Commanding 186th Brigade. He was killed on 30th November 1917.
Casualty Details: UK 82, Australia 27, Total Burials: 109
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