BAPAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Bapaume is a small town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais on the main road from Paris to Arras and Douai. The Communal Cemetery is situated to the north of the town.
Historical Information
Bapaume was occupied by German forces on the 26th September, 1914, and by the British on the 17th March, 1917; it was retaken by the Germans on the 24th March, 1918, and by the New Zealand Division on the following 29th August. It has given its name to the battles of the 24th-25th March, 1918, and the 31st August-3rd September, 1918. It was severely damaged by both sides during the War.
The 1939-45 War found Bapaume in the path of the Germans when, in May, 1940, they swept through the gap between Rethel and Hirson on the French Army's front, and across country to occupy Amiens and Abbeville as the British Expeditionary Force fought its way to the coast.
Bapaume was later "adopted" by the City of Sheffield.
There are now over 26, 1914-18 and 1, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. The British graves are in small Plots scattered in different parts of the cemetery. 2 graves from World War One are unidentified
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
Bapaume is a small town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais on the main road from Paris to Arras and Douai. The Communal Cemetery is situated to the north of the town.
Historical Information
Bapaume was occupied by German forces on the 26th September, 1914, and by the British on the 17th March, 1917; it was retaken by the Germans on the 24th March, 1918, and by the New Zealand Division on the following 29th August. It has given its name to the battles of the 24th-25th March, 1918, and the 31st August-3rd September, 1918. It was severely damaged by both sides during the War.
The 1939-45 War found Bapaume in the path of the Germans when, in May, 1940, they swept through the gap between Rethel and Hirson on the French Army's front, and across country to occupy Amiens and Abbeville as the British Expeditionary Force fought its way to the coast.
Bapaume was later "adopted" by the City of Sheffield.
There are now over 26, 1914-18 and 1, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. The British graves are in small Plots scattered in different parts of the cemetery. 2 graves from World War One are unidentified
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
World War One Burials
World War One
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World War Two Burial
T/10664076 Driver Albert Henry Bussell, Royal Army Service Corps, died between 2nd September 1944 and 3rd September 1944, aged 39. Son of Henry and Emma Jane Bussell, of South Petherton, Somerset.
