Bulls Road Cemetery gets its name from the road to Les Boeufs which is French for the bullocks. The road is no longer there so access is by a rough track but perfectly driveable. Flers was captured on 15 September 1916 in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, when it was entered by the New Zealand and 41st Divisions behind tanks, the innovative new weapons that were used here for the first time. The village was lost during the German advance of March 1918 and retaken at the end of the following August by the 10th West Yorks and the 6th Dorsets of the 17th Division. The cemetery was begun on 19 September 1916 and was used by fighting units (mainly Australian) until March 1917. The rest of the cemetery consists of graves (mainly of September 1916, or August 1918) brought in after the Armistice from the fields between Flers and Longueval. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. Brian Bagley from Wing lies in Plot III, Row K, Grave 14.
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