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Some pictures of the Cemetery, taken 14 December 2014
Perth Cemetery (China Wall)
View Perth Cemetery (China Wall) on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteYpres
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
About
The cemetery was begun by French troops in November 1914 (the French graves were removed after the Armistice) and adopted by the 2nd Scottish Rifles in June 1917. It was called Perth (as the predecessors of the 2nd Scottish Rifles were raised in Perth), China Wall (from the communication trench known as the Great Wall of China). The cemetery was used for front line burials until October 1917 and then again after the Armistice, when graves were brought in from the battlefields around Ypres and from smaller cemeteries.
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2 Rutlanders remembered here
NOEL
Tom Cecil
From Cottesmore
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SHARPE
George Ernest
From Whissendine
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By John Stokes on Sunday 14th December '14 at 7:01pm
A Rutlander, living in Belgium
Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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