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cemetery, in which 2,758 Commonwealth servicemen are either buried or commemorated. Plot II (occupying less than one sixth of the site) is an original plot of 1916–18, containing 272 burials. The rest of the cemetery contains graves moved here from surrounding areas following the
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994:Mametz Wood Memorial
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320:Horace Smith-Dorrien
310:, with sculpture by
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810:Hartmannswillerkopf
793:French & German
782:Le Quesnel Memorial
662:Monuments aux Morts
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508:"Pozieres Memorial"
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463:Lieutenant-Colonel
372:Battle of the Somme
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