Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel (Somme)

Beaumont-Hamel is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, on the West side of the Ancre valley, about 5 miles north of Albert. It was attacked again and taken on the 13th November, 1916, by the 51st (Highland) and 63rd (Royal Naval) Divisions.

Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery is named from a German trench about a mile North-east of the village, which remained in enemy hands until the German retreat early in 1917. The cemetery was made by the V Corps after that retreat, when their units cleared the Ancre battlefield, and it was known also as V Corps Cemetery No. 11. It contains the graves of 161 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in November, 1916, or January, 1917, and of whom 34 are unidentified.

The cemetery is approached by a long path leading North from the road between Beaumont-hamel and Beaucourt. It covers an area of 511 square yards, and it is bounded by a hornbeam hedge and a concrete curb. It contains a short avenue of Irish yews. It commands wide views in all directions over the battlefields of 1916-18, including today the town of Albert, the Newfoundland Park and the 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial at Thiepval.

Number of burials by Unit

Highland Light Infantry
38
   King's Royal Rifle Corps
14
Manchester Regt.
12
   Loyal North Lancashire Regt.
11
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
11
   Border Regt.
8
South Staffordshire Regt.
6
   Lancashire Fusiliers
5
Royal Berkshire Regt.
5
   Bedfordshire Regt.
4
Royal Engineers
2
   Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
2
East Lancashire Regt.
2
   Machine Gun Corps - Infantry
2
West Yorkshire Regt.
1
   King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
1
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt.
1
   Royal Warwickshire Regt.
1
Seaforth Highlanders
1
      
Identified burials
127
      
Unidentified UK burials:
34
      
Total burials
161
      

Also buried in this cemetery

C.S.M. Bertram Robert Maclean, 1st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps. Killed in action 14th Nov. 1916, aged 34. Served in the South African Campaign. D.11

Capt. John Patrick Hamilton Wood, 22nd Bn. Manchester Regt. Killed in action 11th Jan. 1917, aged 36. Served with Paget's Horse in the South African Campaign.