Adanac Military Cemetery
cemetery in Miraumont, Somme, France
Adanac Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War I located near the French villages of Miraumont, Pys and Courcelette and contains 3,187 interments, 1483 of whom are identified.
The cemetery was formed after the war ended from the consolidation of existing burial sites into a 'concentration cemetery' by consolidating several smaller cemeteries onto the site.
The name 'Adanac' is a reversal of word Canada, the home of over five hundred of the men interred there. The name was necessary because a cemetery near Cambrai that had been established during the war in October 1918 had already received the name "Canada Cemetery".
History
The cemetery sits on land that was wrested from the Germans by the Canadian Corps in October and November 1916 during the final phases of the Battles of the Somme. Most of the men buried at Adanac are British and Canadian soldiers who fell between September and November 1916 in the fields north of the village of Courcelette.
Following the Somme, the British occupied the nearby villages of Miraumont and Pys on 24–25 February 1917 after the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line. The Germans reoccupied the area on 25 March 1918 at the beginning of the Spring Offensive until the British recaptured it on 24 August 1918 during the Second Battle of the Somme.
There are also a smaller number of British and New Zealand soldiers killed in fighting in the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918 buried in the cemetery as well that came from this later phase of fighting in the area.
Sir Herbert Baker designed the cemetery.
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