Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery

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The Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery is a military cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who tried in World War I. The cemetery contains mainly those who died on the front line near the village of Cerisy between February 1917 and March 1918 and during the Allied recapture of the village in August 1918.

Rental: The cemetery is located near Cerisy, a village approximately 10 kilometres southwest of the town of Albert, France on the D42 and D71 roads.

Establishment of the cemetery: The cemetery was established in February 1917 as the New French Military Cemetery. It was used by the 39th and 13th Casualty Clearing Stations for much of early 1917, and by the 41st Stationary Hospital from May 1917 to March 1918, when the area was lost in the 1918 German spring offensive. It was used by the Australian Corps after they recaptured Cerisy in August 1918. More serious were moved in from other Somme battlefields and the surrounding area after the end of the war. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and William Harrison Cowlishaw.

Former burial sites moved to Cerisy-Gailly: Former burial sites of soldiers now bried...