Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Serre Road No 2 CWGC Cemetery, Serre-les-Puisieux. February 2014 Caption
Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Serre Road No 2 CWGC Cemetery, Serre-les-Puisieux. February 2014 Caption information In June 1916, the road out of Mailly-Maillet to Serre and Puisieux entered No Man's Land about 1,300 metres south-west of Serre. On 1 July 1916, the 31st and 4th Divisions attacked north and south of this road and although parties of the 31st Division reached Serre, the attack failed. The 3rd and 31st Divisions attacked once more on the 13 November, but again without success. Early in 1917, the Germans fell back to the Hindenburg Line and on 25 February, Serre was occupied by the 22nd Manchesters. The village changed hands once more in March 1918 and remained under German occupation, until they withdrew in August. In the spring of 1917, the battlefields of the Somme and Ancre were cleared by V Corps and a number of new cemeteries were made, three of which are now named from the Serre Road. Serre Road Cemetery was begun in May 1917 and by the end of the war it contained approximately 475 graves (Plots I and II, except for Row E, Plot II which was added in 1922 and Row AA, Plot I which was added in 1927), but it was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the addition of further graves from the surrounding area,
Size: 4256px × 2832px
Location: Somme Battlefield area of Northern France
Photo credit: © BRIAN HARRIS / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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