Unicorn Cemetery

UNICORN CEMETERY

Vend'huile

Aisne

France

General Directions: Vend'huile is a village about 19 kilometres north of St Quentin and 24 kilometres south-east of Peronne. Unicorn Cemetery is about 3 kilometres south-west of Vend'huile on the west side of the road to the villages of Lempire and Ronssoy.

Vend'huile was very nearly reached in the Battle of Cambrai 1917. It was taken by the 27th and 30th American Divisions at the end of September 1918, and cleared by the 12th and 18th Divisions on 30 September. After the fight, men of the 18th Division were buried by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division in Plot I, Row A, of Unicorn Cemetery (the name is taken from the Divisional mark of the 50th Division). The rest of the cemetery was formed after the Armistice when graves were brought in from isolated sites and small cemeteries of 1917 and 1918 in the surrounding battlefields.

Victoria Cross: Corporal, Lawrence Carthage Weathers, VC, 43rd Bn. Australian Infantry, he died of wounds on 29/9/1918 and is buried in plot III. C. 5.

Casualty Details: UK 925, Canada 1, Australia 78, India 4, Total Burials: 1008