Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery: |
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721131 Private, Albert
Herbert Robert Barnes, 24th Battalion The London Regiment Died France 18th September 1918 Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery Grave II.B.20 |
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The village of Epehy was captured at the beginning of
April 1917. It was lost on 22nd March 1918 after a spirited defence by
the Leicester Brigade of the 21st Division and the 2nd Royal Munster
Fusiliers. It was retaken (in the Battle of Epehy) on 18th September
1918, by the 7th Norfolks, 9th Essex and 1st/1st Cambridgeshires of the
12th (Eastern) Division. The cemetery takes its name from the Ferme du
Bois, a little to the east. Plots I and II were made by the 12th
Division after the capture of the village, and contain the graves of
officers and men who died in September 1918 (or, in a few instances, in
April 1917 and March 1918). Plots III-VI were made after the Armistice
when graves were brought in from the battlefields surrounding Epehy and
the following smaller cemeteries:- DEELISH VALLEY CEMETERY, EPEHY, in
the valley running from South-West to North-East a mile East of Epehy
village. It contained the graves of 158 soldiers from the United Kingdom
(almost all from the 12th Division) who fell in September, 1918. |
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Photographs of Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery and of the gravestone of Private AHR Barnes very kindly provided by Pierre Vandervelden. Pierre maintains the website Inmemories.com remembering the soldiers that fought in France and Belgium and that gave their lives for freedom. | |