HOURGES ORCHARD CEMETERY
Domart-sur-La-Luce
Somme
France
General Directions: Domart-sur-la-Luce is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme in the valley of the Luce on the road from Amiens to Roye. Hourges is a hamlet on the same road a little south-east of the village and Hourges Orchard Cemetery is on the south-west side of the road.
The neighbourhood saw fighting on 1 April 1918, when the 2nd Cavalry Division (including the Canadian Cavalry Brigade) took "Rifle Wood", and again on 8 August 1918, when the 43rd Canadian Battalion retook the same wood and the Canadian Corps swept forward more than 9 kilometres. Hourges Orchard Cemetery was made in August 1918 and a small number of graves of April 1918 were brought in after the Armistice.
Casualty Details: UK 13, Canada 127, Australia 4, Total Burials: 144
240616 Private
David Ewing Robertson
116th Bn. Canadian Infantry
(Central Ontario Regiment)
08/08/1918.
Row A. 45.
Picture courtesy of David Robertson (nephew) Nanaimo B.C. Canada
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