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Cornelius Newrick
50898, 80th Field Coy., Royal
Engineers
who died age 36
on Friday 22 October 1915
is buried in
CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme, France
Plot I. Row B. Grave 38
Corbie is a small town 15 kilometres
east of Amiens.
Go north from the town centre taking the D1 (Rue Gambetta) in the direction
of Bray. You will arrive at a set of traffic lights with the hospital
diagonally on your left. Continue, taking the second turning on your right
onto the Rue des Longues Vignes
(VC6). The cemetery lies about 800 metres on the
left.
Corbie was about 20 kilometres
behind the front when Commonwealth forces took over the line from Berles-au-Bois southward to the Somme
in July 1915. The town immediately became a medical centre, with Nos 5 and 21 Casualty Clearing Stations based at La Neuville (the suburb across the Ancre)
until October 1916 and April 1917 respectively. In November 1916 the front
moved east, but the German advance in the Spring of 1918 came within 10 kilometres of the town and brought with it field
ambulances of the 47th Division and the 12th Australian Field Ambulance. The
communal cemetery was used for burials until May 1916, when the plot set
aside was filled and the extension opened. The majority of the graves in the
extension are of officers and men who died of wounds in the 1916 Battle of the Somme.
The remainder relate to the fighting of 1918. The communal cemetery contains
249 First World War burials, the extension 918. The extension was designed by
Charles Holden.
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