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| Harry Hatley
was a private who enlisted in the Essex Regt 11th Battn, service number 23806.
He was born in Felsted, lived in Mountnessing and enlisted at Warley. Harry was
killed in action, near Arras 23rd September 1916, and is buried in the Guard's
cemetery, Lesboeufs. |
| At the time of the Armistice, the cemetery consisted of only 40
graves (now Plot I), mainly those of officers and men of the 2nd Grenadier
Guards who died on 25 September 1916, but it was very greatly increased when
graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries round
Lesboeufs. |
| There are now 3,136 casualties of the First World War buried or
commemorated in this cemetery. 1,643 of the burials are unidentified but there
are special memorials to 83 soldiers known or believed to be buried among
them. |