Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme

Cemetery Details

Location Amiens-Abbeville main road (D95), Crouy, Somme - Hauts-de-France, France
Co‑ordinates N49.96188, E2.08345
Description

Location Information
Crouy is a village about 16 kilometres north-west of Amiens on the west side of the River Somme, on the Amiens-Abbeville main road. The British Cemetery is a little south of the village on the west side of the road to Cavillon and there is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost on the main road.

History Information
This cemetery was used between April and August 1918 for burials from the 5th and 47th Casualty Clearing Stations, which had gone to the village because of the German advance.  Most of the casualties have therefore died of their wounds rather than having been killed outright.

In October 1919, 42 graves were brought to Crouy from the small military cemetery at Riviere, a few kilometres away to the north-west. These burials had been made from the 12th, 53rd and 55th Casualty Clearing Stations at Longpre-les-Corps Saints between May and August 1918. (They now occupy rows E and F of plot IV and part of row D, plot VI.)

The cemetery contains 739 Commonwealth burials from WWI, and a number of French and German war graves.

784 Casualties:
276 Australians; 281 UK; 179 Canadians; 2 India; 6 French; 1 Unidentified and 39 Germans.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

 

Submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  04/04/2017.  Lest we forget.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

BEATON, Robert John

Service number 3241A
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 11 Aug 1886

GREEN, Albert Victor

Service number 231
Private
13th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born Dec 1895

DOIG, John Lindsay

Service number 7181
Private
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1874

WHITE, Frederick

Service number 2522
Private
Australian Provost Corps
AIF WW1

WOODHOUSE, Dougald

Service number 1901
Driver
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

CICOLINI, Raymond Horace

Service number 2005
Driver
4th Motor Transport Company
AIF WW1
Born 1 Jan 1892

LITTMANN, Soloman

Service number 2403
Private
51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 1892

DODDRIDGE, Harold William

Service number 2839
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Sep 1893

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