Additional Information on subjects related to Gwynnd McRae
Osgood Hall
Ham British Cemetery, Muille Villette, France
Gwynnd McRae is buried at the Ham British Cemetery. In January, February and March 1918, the 61st (South Midland) Casualty Clearing Station was posted at Ham, but on the 23rd March the Germans, in their advance towards Amiens, crossed the Somme at Ham, and the town remained in German hands until the French First Army re-entered it on the following 6th September. I believe that Mary McRae's poem lines
"His grave is far from his kindred,
Yet only marked with a wooden cross ;
Yet only marked with a wooden cross ;
is a reference to the capture of the grave site by the Germans.