Ovillers Military Cemetery

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The Ovillers military cemetery (Ovillers military cemetery) is a military cemetery in the municipality of Ovillers-la-Boisselle, in the department of the Somme, northeast of Amiens.

History: This necropolis was built in the no man's land between the British and German lines as they were on the morning of 1 July 1916, the day the Battle of the Somme began. A first cemetery was created at the beginning of the battle. After November 11, 1918, the remains of British army soldiers exhumed from nearby cemeteries were gathered there. Most of the buried soldiers died in 1916 and 1918. On 1 July 2000, the remains of George J. Nugent, a British soldier, disappeared during the Battle of the Somme and whose body was found on 31 October 1998 near the mine hole at La Boisselle.

Characteristics: The Ovillers Military Cemetery has 3,559 graves, including 3,268 British, 120 French, 95 Canadians, 57 Australians, 6 New Zealanders who fell on the nearby battlefield. Of them 2,477 could not...