Death and Burial
April 1917
War diary records that in April 1917 he fought at FACTORY CORNER, near Flers and that this was where he was killed. His Soldiers Records and CWGC information say that he was originally buried at FACTORY CORNER but subsequently moved to the larger AIF Burial Ground about 200 metres away. The photographs below were taken by me of and at FACTORY CORNER on 21 June 2015.
He is listed in the CWGC records for the AIF Burial Ground as - JENSEN, Pte, Australian Peter, 2479. 31st. Bn. Australian Inf. Killed in action 27 Oct 1916. Age 36. Born at Balmain. Son of John Peter Ann Jensen ; husband of E R Jensen, of "Austral", Bay Rd, Five Dock, New South Wales. Plot - I K 15
The cemetery was begun by Australian medical units, posted in the neighbouring caves, in November 1916-February 1917. These original graves are in Plot I, Rows A and B. It was very greatly enlarged after the Armistice when almost 4,000 Commonwealth and French graves were brought in from the battlefields of the Somme, and later from a wider area including FACTORY CORNER, FLERS, a little West of the crossing of the roads from Eaucourt-L'Abbaye to Gueudecourt and from Flers to Ligny-Thilloy. This place, which had been a German Headquarters for Artillery and Engineers and had a German Cemetery, was taken by the 1st Canterbury Infantry Regiment on the 25th September, 1916, and again by the 7th East Yorks on the 27th August, 1918. Fifteen soldiers from the United Kingdom and 13 from Australia were buried here in October, 1916-March, 1917, and in August, 1918.
There are now 3,475 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 2,263 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to 23 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of three casualties buried in a cemetery at Flers, who graves could not be found. The cemetery also contains 170 French and 3 German war graves. We visited the cemetery on 21 June 2015 and placed a Poppy Cross on his grave.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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