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The preparations for the Somme offensive of July 1916 brought a group of casualty clearing stations (the 1st/1st South Midland, 21st, 34th, 45th and Lucknow, section "B") to Daours. The extension to the communal cemetery was opened and the first burials made between June and November 1916. The Allied advance in the spring of 1917 took the hospitals with it, and no further burials were made in the cemetery until April 1918, when the Germans recovered the ground they had lost. From April to the middle of August 1918, the extension was almost a front line cemetery. In August and September 1918, the casualty clearing stations came forward again (the 5th, 37th, 41st, 53rd, 55th and 61st) but in September, the cemetery was closed. The extension was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

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6 images Some pictures of the cemetery
By John Stokes on Sunday 30th November '14 at 8:44pm
A Rutlander, living in Belgium
2 images Some more pictures of the cemetery, taken 22 August 2015.
By John Stokes on Sunday 6th December '15 at 2:59pm
A Rutlander, living in Belgium
2 images Some more pictures of the cemetery, taken 22 August 2015.
By John Stokes on Sunday 6th December '15 at 3:01pm
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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