Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery
The Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery is a military cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in World War I. The cemetery contains mainly those who died on the front line near the village of Cerisy between February 1917 and March 1918 and during the Allied recapture of the village in August 1918. Location. The cemetery is located near Cerisy, a village approximately 10 kilometers southwest of the town of Albert, France on the D42 and D71 roads. Establishment of the Cemetery. The cemetery was established in February 1917  as the New French Military Cemetery. It was used by the 39th and 13th Casualty Clearing Stations for much of early 1917, and by the 41st Stationary Hospital from May 1917 to March 1918, when the area was lost in the 1918 German spring offensive. It was used by the Australian Corps after they recaptured Cerisy in August 1918. More graves were moved in from other Somme battlefields and the surrounding area after the end of the war. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and William Harrison Cowlishaw. Former burial sites moved to Cerisy-Gailly. Former burial sites  of soldiers now buried in Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery include: Statistics. There are a total of 745 burials in the cemetery, of which 633 are identified and 114 are unidentified. Special memorials are dedicated to five lost burials in the vicinity of Maricourt and Ste. Helene. After the war, 158 French graves and 35 German graves were moved to other burial sites.