DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

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COURCELLES-AU-BOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Somme, France

James Basset GRAHAM

Grave C10

Son of James and Virginia Graham, late of St Helena. Husband of Mrs FM Graham, of Mam St, Newlands, South Africa (Source : C.W.G.C.).

74th Siege Battery, South African Heavy Artillery.

Killed in action on the 20th November 1916. Age 39.

The Battery was at Colincamp since the 7th October 1916 in a position really untenable for a heavy battery, without cover and a favourite target for the German artillery. On the 20th November, the enemy kept up a severe bombardment all day, and four gunners were killed (the three men buried at Courcelles and Bombardier Frank Birt buried in Couin British Cemetery).