PARGNY BRITISH CEMETERY
Pargny
Somme
France
General Directions: Pargny is a village about 15 kilometres south of Peronne and the British Cemetery is a further one kilometre south of the village, on the east side of the road the Nesle.
Pargny British Cemetery was made after the Armistice, by concentrations from the surrounding battlefields; the majority of the burials are those of officers and men of the 61st (South Midland) and 8th Divisions, whose resistance at the Somme crossings on the 24th March, 1918, materially helped to delay the German advance. Pargny German Cemetery, from which the graves of 32 soldiers from the United Kingdom were brought to this cemetery, was a little way North-East of Pargny Church.
Casualty Details: UK 631, Canada 6, Total Burials: 637
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