Cemetery:

BRONFAY FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, BRAY-SUR-SOMME, Somme, France

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

II. B. 39.

Location:

Bray-sur-Somme is a village 8 kilometres south-east of Albert. Bronfay Farm is 3 kilometres north-east of the village on the road to Maricourt and the Cemetery is on the south-east side of the road opposite the farm.

Historical Information:

The cemetery was begun by French troops in October 1914, but little used by them. It was used by British troops from August 1915 to February 1917 (particularly in the Battles of the Somme, when the XIV Corps Main Dressing station was at the farm), and a few French soldiers from the Division fighting on the British right were buried here in September; and in the retreat and advance of 1918 further burials were made. After the Armistice, graves of March, August and September 1918, were brought in from the fields between Bronfay Farm and Bray. There are now over 500, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, a small number are unidentified and special memorials are erected to two soldiers from the United Kingdom believed to be buried among them. Nineteen French graves and 26 German have been removed to other cemeteries. The cemetery covers an area of 2,625 square metres and is enclosed by a brick wall.