La Belle Alliance

 

Cross of Sacrifice

60 Burials in this Battlefield Cemetery

10 are unidentified

Main Entrance

15 of the Burials are men of 9th Bn Sherwood Foresters - July 1917

 

  

 

Several Men in one Grave

 

 

 

         Sherwood Foresters 

 

  

La Belle named after a farmhouse that stood nearby

 First used in Feb, March 1916 by King's Royal Rifle Corps 

 

Border Regiment

 

 

South Staffordshire Regiment

 

 

 9th Sherwood's

6th Borders

7th South Staffs

6th Lincolns

 Part of 33rd Brigade

11th Division

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