'Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19' :-
Name: |
Alfred
Louis Apted |
Birth Place: |
London |
Residence: |
Euston Rd., N.w. |
Death Date: |
1 Oct 1916 |
Death Place: |
France and Flanders |
Enlistment Place: |
Fulham |
Rank: |
L Corporal |
Regiment: |
London Regiment |
Battalion: |
19th (County of London) Battalion (St. Pancras) |
Regimental Number: |
8531 |
Type of Casualty: |
Died of wounds |
Theatre of War: |
Western European Theatre |
Comments: |
Formerly 1044, 25Th Cyclist Bn. |
[Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 - published in 1921 by
His Majesty's Stationery Office]
In Memory of
Lance Corporal Alfred Louis APTED
8531, 19th Bn formerly 2nd/25th Bn. London Regiment
(Cyclists) who died on 1 Octber 1916 age 22.
Son of Henry and Mary Apted, of 43, Manchester St., Gray's
Inn Rd., King's Cross, London.
Remembered with honour
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery and Extension - III.D.30.
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension,
Somme, France Field ambulances used the
Communal
Cemetery
for Commonwealth burials from September 1915 to August 1916, and again
during the German advance of March 1918. It contains 127 Commonwealth
burials of the First World War. The XV Corps Main Dressing Station was
formed at Dernancourt in August 1916, when the adjoining EXTENSION was
opened. The 45th and 56th (1st/1st
South Midland
) Casualty Clearing Stations came in September 1916 and remained until
March 1917. The 3rd Australian was here in March and April 1917, and the
56th from April 1917 to February 1918. The 3rd Casualty Clearing Station
came in March 1918 but on 26 March, Dernancourt was evacuated ahead of
the German advance, and the extension remained in their hands until the
village was recaptured on 9 August 1918 by the 12th Division and the
33rd American Division. In September it was again used by the 47th, 48th
and 55th Casualty Clearing Stations under the name of "Edgehill", due to
the rising ground on the north-west. At the Armistice, the Extension
contained more than 1,700 burials; it was then enlarged when graves were
brought in from isolated positions in the immediate neighbourhood and
certain small cemeteries, including:- MOOR CEMETERY, EDGEHILL,
DERNANCOURT, was about 800 metres West, near the top of the hill. It
contained the graves of 42 soldiers from the
United Kingdom
who fell on the 23rd-25th March, 1918.
ALBERT
ROAD
CEMETERY
, BUIRE-SUR-ANCRE, was nearly 3 Kms West, on the straight road from
Amiens
to Albert. It contained the graves of 65 soldiers from the
United Kingdom
and 33 from
Australia
, who fell in April-August, 1918. It was made by Australian units and by
the 58th (
London
) and 12th Divisions. The extension now contains 2,162 Commonwealth
burials and commemorations of the First World War. 177 of the burials
are unidentified, but there are special memorials to 29 casualties known
or believed to be buried among them, and to two buried at
Albert
Road
Cemetery
, Buire-sur-Ancre whose grave could not be found on concentration. The
extension was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Dernancourt is a village 3 kilometres south of
Albert. The
Communal
Cemetery
is a little west of the village, and the Extension is on the north-west
side of the
Communal
Cemetery
.
[Courtesy of
Commonwealth War Graves Commission]
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