Cerisy-Gailly French National Cemetery, Commonwealth Plot

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The Cerisy-Gailly French National Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (also known as the Cerisy-Gailly French National Cemetery) is a military cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating French, British, and Commonwealth soldiers who tried in World War I. The cemetery contains mostly soldiers who die fighting in the Battle of the Somme and manning the front line near the villages of Cerisy and Gailly between May 1917 and August 1918. The cemetery is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Rental: The cemetery is located in the village of Cerisy, which is approximately 10 kilometres south of Albert, France on the D42 and D71 roads.

Establishment of the Cemetery: The cemetery was begun in February 1916 by the French Tenth Army. The British 39th and 13th Casualty Clearing Stations were stationed in Gailly in early 1917, and the 41st Stationary Hospital from May 1917 to March 1918. The villages of Cerisy and Gailly were taken by the Germans in their 1918 spring offensive, but were retaken by the Australian Corps in August 1918. After the end of the war, serious from other Somme battlefields and the Buire Communal Cemetery Extension were reburied...