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Beaurains Road Cemetery, Beaurains, Pas de Calais
Beaurains, Pas de Calais
France
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The cemetery was begun a few days before Beaurains was captured by Commonwealth forces on 18 March 1917. It contained, at the date of the Armistice, the graves of 129 British soldiers, 15 French soldiers and four German prisoners. It was enlarged after the armistice when graves were brought in from the surrounding battlefields. The cemetery contains 331 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 23 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to 14 casualties buried in Ronville British Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery also contains four German graves.