Gordon Dump Cemetery

About

The British military cemetery of La Boisselle (Gordon dump cemetery) is a military cemetery of the First World War, located on the territory of the commune of Ovillers-la-Boisselle, in the French department of the Somme, northeast of Amiens.

History: The cemetery was created on 10 July 1916 and burials were stopped in September of the same year. It contained 95 graves, mostly Australian soldiers. After November 11, 1918, remains of soldiers buried in isolated graves or found on the former battlefield were transferred to this cemetery. Most of the soldiers had fallen in July 1916 at the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.

Characteristics: The military cemetery of La Boisselle is located in the middle of the fields on the road from La Boisselle to Bazentin. It has 1,676 burials, including 1,582 British, 91 Australian, 2 Canadian, and 1 Indian. 1,000 bodies are not identified. It is in this cemetery that the tomb of British footballer Donald Simpson Bell is located in memory of which a stele was erected in Contalmaison.