QUARRY CEMETERY

Montauban

Somme

France 

General Directions: Montauban is a village about 10 kilometres east of Albert. 5 kilometres from Albert on the D938 (Albert-Peronne), turn east onto the D64 and the village of Montauban will be found 4 kilometres along this road. Travel through the village for 600 metres then turn north. The quarry from which this cemetery is named is 750 metres north of the village at the bottom of a valley, 800 metres from the village on the east side of the road. The cemetery is on the north-west side of the quarry.

Montauban village was taken by the 30th and 18th Divisions on 1 July 1916 and it remained in Commonwealth hands until the end of March 1918. It was retaken on 25 August 1918 by the 7th Buffs and the 11th Royal Fusiliers of the 18th Division. Quarry Cemetery was begun (at an advanced dressing station) in July 1916, and used until February 1917. The Germans buried a few of their dead in Plot V in April and May 1918. At the Armistice it consisted of 152 graves in the present Plots V and VI. It was then increased when graves (almost all of July-December 1916) were brought in from the battlefields and small burial grounds surrounding Montauban.

The following are burial grounds concentrated into this cemetery: Briqueterie Cemetery No. 3, Montauban, was on the east side of the brick-works on the Longueval-Maricourt road. It contained the graves of 23 soldiers (mainly 1/5th King's Own Royal Lancaster's) who died in July and August 1916. Caterpillar Wood Cemetery No. 2, Montauban, was at the east end of Caterpillar Wood, north-west from Montauban village. It was begun by the 2nd Suffolks and contained the graves of 50 soldiers who died between July 1916 and January 1917. Green Dump Cemetery, Longueval, 1.2 kilometres west of Longueval village. It contained the graves of 54 soldiers who died between August and October 1916. Quarry Scottish Cemetery, Montauban, was between the Quarry and the north end of Bernafay Wood. It contained the graves of 55 soldiers (largely 11th and 12th Royal Scots) who died in July 1916.

Casualty Details: UK 672, Australia 25, New Zealand 38, South Africa 5, Total Burials: 740

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