Auchonvillers Communal Cemetery contains 15 Commonwealth war graves from the Great War (World War I).
William Brown was a Newfoundlander and Sergeant-Major in the British Army who not only was the escort to the catafalque of the Unknown Warrior when the remains were brought back to the United Kingdom in 1920, but later became guardian of the Newfoundland Memorial Park, where he was personally involved with the reburial of Newfoundland’s dead. He is buried here on the Somme..
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