Quarry Cemetery, Montauban



Quarry Cemetery was begun (at an Advanced Dressing Station) in July 1916, and used until February 1917; and the Germans buried a few of their dead in Plot V in April and May 1918. At the Armistice it consisted of 152 graves in the present plots V and VI. It was then increased by the concentration of graves (almost all July-December 1916) from the battlefields and small burial grounds surrounding Montauban.

There are now nearly 750, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. of these, over one-fifth are unidentified and special memorials are erected to seven soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or beleived to buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom and two from New Zealand buried in Quarry Scottish Cemetery, Green Dump Cemetery and Caterpillar Wood Cemetery No.2, whose graves could not be found on concentration.

Of the burial grounds concentrated to the Quarry Cemetery:

Briqueterie Cemetery No.3, Montauban, was on the East side of the brick-works on the Longueval-Maricourt road. It contained the graves of 23 soldiers from the United Kingdom 9mainly 1/5th K.O.R.L.) who fell in July and August 1916.

Caterpillar Wood Cemetery No.2, Montauban, was at the East end of Caterpillar Wood, North-West from Montauban village. It was begun by the 2nd Suffolks, and it contained the graves of 50 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in July 1916 - January 1917.

Green Dump Cemetery, Longueval, 1.2 kilometers West-South-West of Longueval village. It contained the graves of 42 soldiers from the United Kingdom, eleven from New Zealand and one of an unknown unit, who fell in August-October 1916.

Quarry Scottish Cemetery, Montauban, was between the Quarry and the North end of Bernafay Wood. it contianed the graves of 55 soldiers from the United Kingdom (largely 11th and 12th Royal Scots) who fell in July 1916

Number of Burials by Unit