Redan Ridge Cemetery, No. 1, Beaumont-Hamel (Somme)

Details

Redan Ridge Cemetery No.1 is on top of the ridge, midway between the old front lines. It contains the graves of 154 soldiers from the United Kingdom who belonged (with few exceptions) to the 4th Division, which attacked between Beaumont-Hamel and Serre on the 1st July 1916, or to the 2nd, which gained ground here on the 13th November, 1916. The unnamed graves number 74.

Number of burials by Unit

Royal Fusiliers
21
 Seaforth Higlanders
2
Rifle Brigade
17
 Bedfordshire Regiment
1
Essex Regiment
7
 Devonshire Regiment
1
Ox & Bucks Light Infantry
6
 Dorsetshire Regiment
1
Somerset Light Infantry
6
 King's (Liverpool) Regiment
1
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3
 Royal Scots
1
Gordon Highlanders
2
 Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1
Lancashire Fusliers
2
 South Staffordshire Regiment
1
Machine Gun Corps
2
 Unidentified
74
Manchester Regiment
2
 Total Number of burials
154
Northumberland Fusliers
2

Awards

Captain R. J. R. Leacroft M.C. 1st Btn Somerset Light Infantry, K.I.A. 1st July 1916.Aged 22. C.40.

Corporal Ernest Albert Firstbrook M.M. 2941, 24th Btn Royal Fusilers K.I.A. 13th Nov.1916. Aged 30. A.12