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CAMON COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Somme

France

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GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.89006, Longitude: 2.34914

Location Information

Camon is a village in the Department of Somme immediately east of Amiens across the river. From Amiens train station turn left onto the Rue Jules Barni, which runs in the south-easterly in the direction of Longeau. After approximately 1.5 kilometres you will see on your right the Saint Acheul Church. Turn left at this point onto the Rue Saint Acheul. Continue onto the Rue L'Agrappin and then turn right onto Rue Voyelle. Continue onto Rue Marius Petit which then becomes Rue Roger Salengro. The cemetery lies on the right hand side of this road. The Commonwealth war graves are on the north-east side of the cemetery.


History Information

Camon Communal Cemetery contains 18 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and six from the Second World War.


World War One Identified Burials: United Kingdom 9, Australia 8. Total 17.

World War One Unidentified Burial. United Kingdom 1. 

World War Two Identified Burials: United Kingdom 6.

Entrance & World War One Burials

Cemetery images © Johan Pauwels

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​1927 Warrant Officer
Samuel John Stewart
Australian Army Ordnance Corps
2nd May 1918, aged 21.


Son of Charles and Elizabeth Stewart, of Gympie, Queensland.

His headstone bears the inscription "His, The Noble Sacrifice Ours, The Sacred Loss"

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6849 Sergeant
Arthur Stanley Upward

Australian Army Ordnance Corps
2nd May 1918, aged 21.

​Son of Frederic and Rebecca Upward, of The Olives, 12, Louthey St., St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia. Native of Malvern, Victoria.

His headstone bears the inscription "Loving Son Of F. &. R. Upward Of "The Olives" St Kilda Victoria"

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Studio portrait of 6849 Driver (later Sergeant) Arthur Stanley Upward, 10th Company Australian Service Corps (later Australian Army Ordnance Corps 4 Division) of St Kilda, Victoria. A bank clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Berrima (A35) on 28 June 1915. On 2 May 1918, he was killed in action near Amiens, France aged 33. He is buried in the Camon Communal Cemetery, France. His brother, 2499 Private Frederic Hugh Upward, 56th Battalion, was killed in action at Ypres, Belgium on 23 September 1917 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial

Camon Communal Cemetery
Camon Communal Cemetery
Camon Communal Cemetery
Camon Communal Cemetery
Camon Communal Cemetery
Camon Communal Cemetery

World War Two Burials

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NEARBY CWGC CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS
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Blangy-Tronville Communal Cemetery
LONGUEAU BRITISH CEMETERY
ST. PIERRE CEMETERY, AMIENS

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Disclaimer


The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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