The Western Front Today - Aveluy Wood Cemetery
Aveluy Wood (Lancashire Dump) cemetery, located in Mesnil-Martinsart on the Somme battlefields, was established in June 1916.
It contains 334 U.K. and 26 Australian burials.
Also contained with the cemetery are 20 special memorials.
References:
Before Endeavours Fade, Rose E.B. Coombs, After the Battle 1994
Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide - Somme, Leo Cooper 2000
A "biff" was a Bristol fighter plane.
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