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Private Albert Earnest Clifton Lund was killed on the first day
of the Somme. He served with the 2nd Bn. Royal Fusiliers. He is
buried in Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery, No 2, Auchonvilles, France.
Hawthorn Ridge
Cemetery No. 2 is 460 metres South of No. 1. It was made by the V
Corps (as V Corps Cemetery No. 12) in the spring of 1917, and seven
isolated graves were brought in after the Armistice. There are now
over 200, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of
these, over 50 are unidentified. The great majority fell on the 1st
July, 1916. The cemetery covers an area of 1,019 square metres and
it is enclosed by a low stone rubble wall.
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