The CWGC Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-l'Abbe, Picardy, Somme, France.

The special colonnade containing regimental badges in the CWGC Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-l'Abbe, Picardy, Somme, France. There are now 2, 890 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Only 12 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 21 casualties whose graves in the cemetery could not be exactly located. The cemetery also contains 83 German graves. The burials in this cemetery were carried out under extreme pressure and many of the graves are either too close together to be marked individually, or they contain multiple burials. Some headstones carry as many as three sets of casualty details, and in these cases, regimental badges have had to be omitted. Instead, these badges, 117 in all, have been carved on a cloister wall on the north side of the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.