Rossignol Wood Cemetery, Hebuterne (Pas de Calais)

Details

Rossignol Wood Cemetery is on the South side of the road from Puisieux to Gommecourt, about midway between the two villages. Four hundred yards to the East is Rossignol Wood, taken by the Germans at the end of March, 1918, and recovered the following July.
The cemetery was begun in March, 1917 by the 4th Division Burial Officer, and a German plot was added after the Armistice by concentration from the battlefields immediately South and South-West. It now contains the graves of 34 United Kingdom soldiers (two of whom are unidentified), 7 New Zealand (who fell in August, 1918) and 70 Germans

Number of burials by Unit

North Staffordshire Regiment
17
South Staffordshire Regiment
14
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
4
New Zealand Wellington Regiment
3
Notts. & Derbys Regiment, Sherwood Foresters
1
Unidentified
2
German Burials
70
Total number of burials
111

Awards

Captain Samuel Brammer Wilton MC, 'C' Coy. 1st/5th Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment, killed in action 14th March 1917, aged 25. Grave A. 4.