Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension

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The Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension (Achiet-le-Grand Military Cemetery) is a military cemetery in the province of Achiet-le-Grand, Pas-de-Calais, south of Arras.

Location: This cemetery adjoins the communal cemetery, north of the village, rue de l'Egalité, 200 m from the last dwellings.

At the hands of the Germans since the beginning of the war, Achiet-le-Grand was occupied by British troops on 17 March 1917 and lost on 25 March 1918. The village was finally taken over on August 23, 1918. The Achiet station was an allied linehead and many wounded will be transported there. This cemetery was used by the Commonwealth medical units from April 1917 to March 1918 to bury soldiers who died as a result of their injuries. The Germans used this cemetery to a small extent in March and April 1918. After the armistice, the bodies of Commonwealth soldiers from many of the surrounding temporary cemeteries will be buried there. There are now more than 1,351 victims of the 1914-18 war commemorated on this site of which 210 are not identified...