True and Fascinating Canadian History
Delsaux Farm Cemetery
Beugny. Pas de Calais. France
In Memory of:
Peter Handcock Broughton-Adderley. WWI. KIA
"Delsaux Farm was a point on the German defensive system known as the Beugny-Ytres line, which was reached by Commonwealth troops on 18 March 1917, and passed on the following day. The farm was lost on 23 March 1918 after the gallant defence of Beugny by the 9th Welsh Regiment and their withdrawal, but it was retaken by the 5th Division on 2 September 1918, and on the next day the same division occupied Beugny village.
After their advance in March 1918, the Germans made a cemetery (Beugny Military Cemetery No.18) at the cross-roads, and in it buried 103 Commonwealth and 82 German dead. The site was extended in October - November 1918 by the 29th and 46th Casualty Clearing Stations, which came to Delsaux Farm and made the present cemetery. A little later, the German graves of March 1918 were removed and the 103 Commonwealth dead reburied in Plot I, Row J, Plot II, Row A, and Plot III, Rows B, C and D. The rest of the cemetery was made when graves were later brought in from the battlefield.
Delsaux Farm Cemetery contains 495 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 61 of the burials are unidentified and 32 others, identified as a whole but not individually, are marked with headstones inscribed "Buried near this spot".
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens."
Source. The quote above about Delsaux Farm Cemetery was taken
from:
http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/23600/DELSAUX%20FARM%20CEMETERY,%20BEUGNY
'Captain Peter Handcock Broughton-Adderley, who died on October 16th [1917] of wounds received in action on the previous day, was the eldest son of Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Hubert Broughton-Adderley, of Tunstall Hall, Maket Drayton, and Barlaston Hall, Staffordshire.
He was educated at the Rev. E. L. Browne's, St. Andrew's, Eastbourne, Eton (Mr. Stones), and Exeter College, Oxford. He was a good all round sportsman and cricketer, and at Eton obtained his Upper Sexpenny, Lower Club, and XXII, and his house colours, and was a member of the Eton Society.
At Oxford he played cricket for his college and for the Authentics, and was a member of the Bullingdon Club. He was also a member of the M.C.C.
After leaving Oxford he went out to Rhodesia to take up tobacco farming, but after nine months contracted blackwater fever and sunstroke, and had to return to England.
In 1914 he went to Canada, and on the outbreak of war tried to enlist, but could not get passed for active service. In September he joined the Royal North-West Mounted Police at Prince Albert, and served with that Force for two years.
He then joined the R.N.A.S. at Toronto, and went to France in February, 1917, to complete his training, but owing to a bad crash had to give up flying. He transferred to the Scots Guards, went to the front with them in December, 1917, and obtained the acting rank of captain last September.'
Obituary Source & Appreciation:
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1918/1918%20-%201261.html
Delsaux Farm Cemetery : Notes Website Source & Appreciation
http://canadaonline.about.com/od/ww1battles/ig/Pictures-Battle-of-Vimy-Ridge/
Commonwealth War Dead
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/240041/BROUGHTON-ADDERLEY,%20PETER%20HANDCOCKObituaries Sources
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1918/1918%20-%201261.html
http://www.masonicgreatwarproject.org.uk/writeup.php?string=368
Cricket Archives. Notes on Peter Handcock Broughton-Adderley as a student
http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/207/207954/207954.html
