SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

Colincamps

Somme

France

 

General Directions: Colincamps is a village about 16 kilometres north of Albert. Sucrerie Military Cemetery is about 3 kilometres south-east of the village on the north side of the road from Mailly-Maillet to Puisieux.

The cemetery was begun by French troops in the early summer of 1915, and extended to the West by British units from July in that year until, with intervals, December, 1918. It was called at first the 10th Brigade Cemetery. Until the German retreat in March, 1917, it was rather more than a 1.6 kilometres from the front line; and from the end of March, 1918, (when the New Zealand Division was engaged in fighting at the Sucrerie) to the following August it was under fire. The 285 French and twelve German graves were removed to other cemeteries after the Armistice, and in consequence there are gaps in the lettering of the Rows.

Shot at Dawn: Rifleman J. Crozier, 9th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles, executed for desertion 27/02/1916, plot 1. A. 5.

Casualty Details: UK 965, Canada 13, Australia 29, New Zealand 65, South Africa 32, Total Burials: 1104

 

60230 Gunner

Alexander Burnett Kemp

"Z" Coy. 2nd Trench Mortar Bn.

Royal Field Artillery

07/09/1916, aged 28

Husband of Lilly Kemp, father of Lilly, Alex and Janet Kemp.

A Tailor by trade.

Plot I. I. 35

 

 

18/163 Private

Levi Sutton

18th Bn. Durham Light Infantry

20/04/1916, aged 36.

Son of William and Elizabeth Sutton, of Darlington; husband of Mary Hannah Sutton, of 86, Westmoreland St., Darlington.

Plot III. I. 3.

 

Pictures courtesy of Great grandson, Peter Sutton.

 

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