SUZANNE MILITARY CEMETERY No.3

Suzanne

Somme

France

General Directions: Suzanne is a village in the Department of the Somme on the right bank of the Somme River, about 13 kilometres south-east of Albert. Suzanne Military Cemetery No. 3 is north of the village near the east of the road to Maricourt.

The village of Suzanne was taken over by British troops in the summer of 1915, lost in March, 1918, and recaptured by the 3rd Australian Division on the following 26th August. Suzanne Military Cemetery No. 3 was originally a French Cemetery (Cimetiere Mixte No. 3 de Suzanne); but after the Armistice the British graves were concentrated into it from the battlefields North of the Somme, and the French graves were removed.

Shot at Dawn: Private F. Wright, 1st Bn. Royal West Surrey Regiment, executed for desertion28/01/1917, plot 1. C. 7.

Private B. A. Hart, 1/7th Bn. Suffolk Regiment executed 06/02/1917 for desertion, plot 1. C. 10.

Private F. Stead, 2nd Bn. Duke of Wellington's Regiment, executed for desertion 12/02/1917, plot 2. C. 1.

Casualty Details: UK 102, Canada 8, Australia 28, Germany 1, Total Burials: 139

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