Villers-Bretonneux cemetery Northern France. WW1 and WW2 Cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission,CWGC.
First and Second World War , WW1 and WW2 Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries in Northern and Second World War , WW1 and WW2 Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries in Northern France. Villers-Bretonneux became famous in 1918, when the German advance on Amiens ended in the capture of the village by their tanks and infantry on 23 April. On the following day, the 4th and 5th Australian Divisions, with units of the 8th and 18th Divisions, recaptured the whole of the village and on 8 August 1918, the 2nd and 5th Australian Divisions advanced from its eastern outskirts in the Battle of Amiens. VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other burial grounds in the area and from the battlefields. Plots I to XX were completed by 1920 and contain mostly Australian graves, almost all from the period March to August 1918. Plots IIIA, VIA, XIIIA and XVIA, and Rows in other Plots lettered AA, were completed by 1925, and contain a much larger proportion of unidentified graves brought from a wider area. Later still, 444 graves were brought in from Dury Hospital Military Cemetery. The following were among the burial grounds from which graves were taken to Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.
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