From GWGC site.
In the last blog entry, I mentioned that Private Herbert John Leach, who had signed his name in the Naours Cave, had been buried at the Australian Cemetery in nearby Flers, France. I did some more research on it.
It is referred to as the A.I.F. Burial Ground, Flers. Then there was mention of 1212 casualties which I wasn't sure if that meant these were men who were killed or wounded there during fighting as that number didn't match up with the number of burials.
The cemetery is located 2 kilometers north of Flers, Department of the Somme.
A lot of fighting occurred at and around Flers, which was captured from the Germans 15 September 1916,. in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. The village was entered by the New Zealand Division and 41st Division.
--DaCoot
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