The Cross of Sacrifice at the sunset at the Guards Cemetery, Les Boeufs, near Lesboeufs, The Somme, France.

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The Cross of Sacrifice at the sunset at the Guards Cemetery, Les Boeufs, near Lesboeufs, The Somme, France. Lesboeufs was attacked by the Guards Division on 15 September 1916 and captured by them on the 25th. It was lost on 24 March 1918 during the great German offensive, after a stubborn resistance by part of the 63rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps, and recaptured on 29 August by the 10th Bn. South Wales Borderers. At the time of the Armistice, the cemetery consisted of only 40 graves (now Plot I), mainly those of officers and men of the 2nd Grenadier Guards who died on 25 September 1916, but it was very greatly increased when graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries round Lesboeufs. Casualty Details: UK 2911, Canada 5, Australia 209, New Zealand 11, Total Burials: 3136 (Source: )

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Size: 3418px × 5129px
Location: Guards Cemetery, Les Boeufs, nr Lesboeufs, The Somme, France.
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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