Munich Trench British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel (Somme)

Details

Beaumont-Hamel is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, about 8 kilometers North of Albert. Munich Trench British Cemetery (named from a German trench captured by the 7th Division on the 11th January, 1917) is about 137 metres West of Waggon Road (see Waggon Road Cemetery). The two cemetereries stnd on high ground, in an area containing a large number of War Cemeteries and Memorials.

Munich Trench British Cemetery (originally V Corps Cemetery No. 8) contains the graves of 126 soldiers from the United Kingdom, of whom 28 are unidentified.

Number of burials by Unit

East Lancashire Regiment
15
   King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
15
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
15
   Manchester Regiment
10
Royal Fusiliers - City of London Regiment
10
   Border Regiment
6
Northumberland Fusiliers
6
   Devonshire Regiment
5
Highland Light Infantry
5
   Royal Berkshire Regiment
5
Dorsetshire Regiment
2
   Gordon Highlanders
2
Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment
1
   Queen's - Royal West Surrey Regiment
1
Identified burials
98
      
Unidentified burials
28
      
Total Number of burials
126
      

Awards

Pte. J. C. Hargreaves M.M., 2nd Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Died 18th Nov. 1916. B. 33.