Adanac Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves, and places of commemoration, of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars...

 burial ground for the dead of World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 located near the French villages of Miraumont

Miraumont

Miraumont is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.Current agricultural products include grains, potatoes, and beets.-Geography:Miraumont is situated on the D107 and D50 crossroads, some northeast of Amiens,...

, Pys

Pys

Pys is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.-Geography:Pys is situated on the D929 road, some north of Amiens, on the border with the Pas-de-Calais.-Population:-External links:*...

 and Courcelette

Courcelette

Courcelette is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.-Geography:Courcelette is situated on the D929 and D107 crossroads, some northeast of Amiens.-History:...

. The cemetery was formed after the war ended from the consolidation of existing burial sites, primarily the graves from the Canadian battlefields around Courcelette. The name is a reversal of "Canada".

History

The British occupied the nearby villages of Miraumont and Pys on 24-25 February 1917 after the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line

Hindenburg Line

The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defences in northeastern France during World War I. It was constructed by the Germans during the winter of 1916–17. The line stretched from Lens to beyond Verdun...

. The Germans reoccupied the area on 25 March 1918 at the beginning of the Spring Offensive

Spring Offensive

The 1918 Spring Offensive or Kaiserschlacht , also known as the Ludendorff Offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during World War I, beginning on 21 March 1918, which marked the deepest advances by either side since 1914...

 until the British recaptured it on 24 August 1918 during the Second Battle of the Somme

Second Battle of the Somme (1918)

During the First World War, the Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought on the Western Front from the end of the summer, in the basin of the Somme River...

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Sir Herbert Barker designed the cemetery. It contains the burials from the Canadian battlefields around Courcelette and the relocated graves from smaller cemeteries surrounding Miraumont, including:

• Pys British Cemetery [22 Canadian soldiers, 2 from the United Kingdom, 5 unknown]
• Pys New British Cemetery [35 war dead from the United Kingdom, 1 from New Zealand]
• Aqueduct Road Cemetery [11 soldiers from the United Kingdom]
• New Zealand Cemetery, Grevillers [19 soldiers from New Zealand]
• Shrine Cemetery, Grevillers [13 soldiers from New Zealand, 2 from the United Kingdom]