MARTINSART BRITISH CEMETERY
Martinsart
Somme
France
General Directions: Martinsart is a small village 4 kilometres north of Albert. The cemetery is on the south side of the village on the road (D129) to Aveluy. The cemetery is signposted in the centre of Martinsart.
Martinsart was close to the Allied front line until September 1916, and again from March to August 1918. Martinsart British Cemetery was begun at the end of June 1916, when 14 men of the 13th Royal Irish Rifles, killed by a shell, were buried in what is now Plot I, Row A. It was used as a front-line cemetery until October 1916 and again in September 1918, when bodies were brought in from the battlefields for burial by V Corps. After the Armistice, the cemetery was enlarged when more graves were brought in from the area north, east and south of the village.
Casualty Details: UK 479, Australia 1, New Zealand 8, Total Burials: 488
266065 Private
Trevor Davies
"B" Coy. 15th Bn. Welsh Regiment
10/05/1918, aged 19.
Son of John Thomas and Emily Jane Davies, of 93, John St., Resolven, Neath, Glam.
Plot I. E. 43.
"He walked a short but straight road"
Picture courtesy of nephew J. A. Cousins
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