Victory In Europe, Hunters Cemetery
Victory In Europe

updated: Jan 29, 2003
HUNTERS CEMETERY
 
Hunters Cemetery (the origin of the name is not known) is, infact, a great shell hole, in which 46 soldiers of the 51st Division, who fell in the capture of Beaumont-Hamel, were buried after the battle. It stands at the upper end of "Y" Ravine, within the Newfoundland Memorial Park. It is enclosed by a low stone rubble wall; the Cross is in the middle, on a block of stone one metre high; and the headstones are let into the sides of this block.


 

Those buried in this Cemetery (awards in bold)

Pte Armstrong . J. 1504 M.M. 6th Black Watch, died 13th Nov 1916 aged 18. Grave 1
Pte Brady . J. 6180 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916, aged 29. Grave 13
Pte Clayton . J. 4846 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916, aged 26. Grave 15
Pte Goodfellow . J. 4272 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916. 11
Pte Gourlay . D.W. 1914 9th Royal Scots - Lothian Regt. 16th Nov. 1916 aged 30. Grave 16
Sgt Halley . B.C.T. 3284 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916, aged 21. Grave 24
L/Cpl Kemp A. 1474 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 22
Pte Kerr . A. 1641 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 25
Pte Lindsay . W. 6805 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 38
Pte McCallum . D. 2904 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 19 Grave 19
Cpl McGregor . D. 2801 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 9
Cpl MacLaren . I.D. 1961 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 22 Grave 37
Sgt Martin . D.H. 3463 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 20 Grave 20
Pte Miles . A. 6763 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 17
Pte Milne . R. 5182 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 21 Grave 32
L/Cpl. Muir W. 2416 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 37 Grave 43
Pte Owen . J. 3224 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 26
Pte Paterson . R. 5671 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 24 Grave 31
Cpl Pirie . H. 6918 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 31 Grave 7
Pte Potter . W. 6211 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 14
Pte Reader . W. 3599 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 21
Pte Richardson . J. 1813 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 35
Pte Richardson . T.A. 1253 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 5
Pte Ritchie . W. 4266 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 19 Grave 34
Pte Robbie . W. 3105 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 18 Grave 27
Pte Roper . G. 4867 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 27 Grave 41
Pte Saunders . J.B. 5689 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 22 Grave 4
Pte Scobie . J. 2962 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 38 Grave 10
L/Cpl. Sinclair T. 5632 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916aged 20 Grave 3
Lt Smith . G.S. 153rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps - Infantry died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 21 Grave 2
Pte Smith . J. 5152 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 40
Pte Smith . J.M. 1940 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 Grave 42
L/Cpl Stephen . J.A.N. 806 7th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 23 Grave 28
Pte Stewart . C. 6922 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 19 Grave 44
Pte Thomson . R. 3249 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 21 Grave 33
Pte Thomson . W. 1700 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 20 Grave 39
Pte Thomson . W. 2628 6th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 19 Grave 12
L/Cpl. Tough W. 2441 5th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 21 Grave 46
2nd Lt Wilson . J.A. 5th Gordon Highlanders died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 26 Grave 6
Pte Wilson . J. 6834 7th Black Watch died 13th Nov. 1916 aged 23 Grave 8
Pte Wood . C.A. 4789 7th Black Watch died13th Nov. 1916 aged 22 Grave 36

Number of burials by Unit

Black Watch
32 Gordon Highlanders 7
Machine Gun Corps Inf. 1 Royal Scots 1
Identified burials 41
Unidentified UK burials: 5
Total burials 46