| Citation:
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| Additional
Information: |
Husband of Alice Maud Glasspool, of 25, New Town Rd., Woolston,
Southampton. |
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| Cemetery: |
AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Pas de Calais,
France |
| Grave Reference/Panel Number: |
I. G. 26. |
| Location: |
Aubigny-en-Artois is a village approximately 15 kilometres
north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol (N39). From the N39 turn onto
the D75 towards the village of Aubigny-en-Artois. The Cemetery lies south
on a road leading from the centre of the village, and the Extension is
behind it.
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| Historical Information: |
From March 1916 to the Armistice, Aubigny was held by Commonwealth
troops and burials were made in the extension until September 1918. The
42nd Casualty Clearing Station buried in it during the whole period, the
30th in 1916 and 1917, the 24th and 1st Canadian in 1917 (during the
capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps) and the 57th in 1918. The
extension now contains 2,771 Commonwealth burials of the First World War
and seven from the Second World War. There are also 227 French burials
made prior to March 1916, and 64 German war graves. The extension was
designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. |