Regina Trench Cemetery CWGC

 cemetery, First World War 1914-1918

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This British Commonwealth War Graves (CWGC) Cemetery lies near the site of a well fortified German trench that was nicknamed 'Regina Trench' by its attackers during the Battle of the Somme. It lies 1.5 km north east of the village of Courcelette.

Regina Trench was a German earthwork, captured for a time by the 5th Canadian Brigade on 1 October 1916, attacked again by the 1st and 3rd Canadian Divisions on 8 October, taken in part by the 18th and 4th Canadian Divisions on 21 October, and finally cleared by the 4th Canadian Division on 11 November 1916. The original part of the cemetery (now Plot II, Rows A to D) was made in the winter of 1916-1917. The cemetery was completed after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Courcelette, Grandcourt and Miraumont; most date from October 1916 to February 1917. Many of these graves contain more than one burial and where two names are shown on the one headstone, it is necessary to count the individual names in order to find the correct grave location. Regina Trench Cemetery now contains 2,279 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,077 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 14 casualties believed to be buried among them. One American airman is also buried in the cemetery.Identified Casualty Details: UK 1680, Canada 564, Australia 35, U.S.A. 1

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