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updated: May 27, 2003
BAPAUME AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY
It was occupied by German forces on the 26th September 1914 and by the British on the 17th March 1917; It was retaken by the Germans on the 24th March 1918, and by the New Zealand Division on the following 29th August. It has given its name to the battles of the 24th -25th March, 1918, and the 31st August - 3rd September, 1918. It was severely damaged by both sides during the war, and it has been "adopted" by the city of Sheffield.
Bapaume Australian Cemetery is on the south east side of the town, in a secluded position a little east of the main road to Peronne. It was begun in March 1917, by the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station and used until the following June, and in April and May 1918, 23 German graves were added to Row C. It now contains the graves of 74 Australian Soldiers, 12 from the United Kingdom, 1 from India, and 1 whose in our forces is not known, and 22 German soldiers. On the east side of it was a German cemetery, from which 168 graves have been removed to Villers-au-Flos.
Bapaume Australian Cemetery covers an area of 542 square metres. It is enclosed by a rubble wall.
The register records particulars of 88 war dead.
Number of burials by Unit
| Australian Field Artillery |
9 |
2nd Bn. Australian Inf. |
5 | |
| 51st Bn. Australian Inf. |
5 |
Royal Garrison Artillery |
5 | |
| 14th Bn. Australian Inf. |
4 |
48th Bn. Australian Inf. |
4 | |
| Australian Machine Gun Corps |
4 |
16th Bn. Australian Inf. |
3 | |
| 3rd Bn. Australian Inf. |
3 |
Australian Engineers |
3 | |
| Australian Medical Corps |
3 |
12th Bn. Australian Inf. |
2 | |
| 23rd Bn. Australian Inf. |
2 |
45th Bn. Australian Inf. |
2 | |
| 46th Bn. Australian Inf. |
2 |
52nd Bn. Australian Inf. |
2 | |
| 57th Bn. Australian Inf. |
2 |
59th Bn. Australian Inf. |
2 | |
| 6th Bn. Australian Inf. |
2 |
Gordon Highlanders |
2 | |
| Royal Field Artillery |
2 |
10th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 | |
| 13th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 |
15th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 | |
| 1st Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 |
1st Bn. Australian Pioneers |
1 | |
| 25th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 |
28th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 | |
| 3rd Bn. Australian Tunnelling Coy. |
1 |
50th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 | |
| 54th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 |
55th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 | |
| 58th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 |
5th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 | |
| 7th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 |
8th Bn. Australian Inf. |
1 | |
| Army Vetinary Corps |
1 |
Indian Units |
1 | |
| Royal Army Ordnance Corps |
1 |
Royal Flying Corps |
1 | |
| Identified Burials |
87 |
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| Unidentified Burials |
1 |
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| Total Burials |
88 |