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updated: May 28, 2003
PARGNY BRITISH CEMETERY
Pargny British Cemetery
Materially helped to delay the German advance. There are now over 600, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, more than three-quarters are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 16 soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of two officers of the Royal Air Force, buried in Pertain Military Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. Certain graves in Plot III, Row E, identified as a group but not individually, are marked with headstones inscribed: "Buried near this spot". The cemetery covers an area of 2,509 square metres. PARGNY GERMAN CEMETERY, from which the graves of 32 soldiers from the United Kingdom were brought to this cemetery, was a little way North-East of Pargny Church.