Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension

• Country France
• Total identified casualties 418 Find these casualties
• Region Somme
• Identified casualties from First & Second World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 49.9233, Longitude: 2.96962

Location information

Doingt is a small village on the eastern outskirts of Peronne, on the left hand side of the D44 road to Ham and St. Quentin. The Cemetery is signposted from the centre of the village on the D199 road (towards Tincourt) and is situated behind the Communal Cemetery, which is to the left of the church.

Visiting information

ARRIVAL

The cemetery is signposted.

The CWGC plot is attached to the rear of the civil cemetery.

PARKING

There is a large car park to the front of the civil cemetery, at the end of Rue Vincent Joubaud, Doignt, with spaces for multiple vehicles.

The ground is flat and firm, the surface is a combination of tarmac loose red gravel.

ACCESS LAYOUT AND MAIN ENTRANCE

There is a green CWGC Cemetery Direction Sign to the right of the parking area in front of the civil Cemetery. A crushed gravel track, approximately 100 m long (ruelle du Cimetiere) follows the boundary of the civil cemetery to the main entrance gate for the CWGC cemetery.

The CWGC cemetery is surrounded by a stone-topped red brick wall.

The main gate is approximately 1 metre wide; black metal, mid-level and thigh height, with a handle on the top left corner, which is twisted clockwise to lift the latch. The gate opens inwards into the cemetery.

There is a semi-circular paved area underneath the main gate and on the inside of the cemetery. The paving is level with the gravel in front of the entrance and the grass inside the cemetery.

The Cross of Sacrifice is located midway down the cemetery, in line with the main entrance.

The Register Box is built into the inside face of the left-hand pillar at the main entrance.

There is a stone bench against the boundary wall between the civil cemetery and the CWGC cemetery, facing the Cross of Sacrifice.

The internal paths are grass, the ground is firm and undulating in patches.

ALTERNATIVE ACCESS

A second entrance in is located in the boundary wall between the civil and the CWGC cemetery, to the right of the main entrance into the civil cemetery. Paths inside the civil cemetery are compacted red gravel.

A black, metal, mid-level and thigh height gate with an up and down latch, located on the right-hand side of the gate. There is a slightly raised paving stone under the gate, approximately 25 mm above the gravel path inside the civil cemetery and the grass in the CWGC cemetery.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The cemetery is permanently open.

History information

Doingt was captured by the 5th Australian Division on 5 September 1918, and the village was completely destroyed in the fighting. In the same month, the 20th, 41st and 55th Casualty Clearing Stations arrived, remaining until October, when the cemetery was closed. It was made in three plots; Plot I contained only Commonwealth graves, Plot II only American, and Plot III the graves of both armies. The American graves were later removed by the American Graves Registration Services.

Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension contains 417 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 1 being unidentified, and two burials from the Second World War.

The extension was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.