Vignacourt British Cemetery

Cemetery Details

Location Vignacourt, Departement de la Somme - Picardie, France
Co‑ordinates N50.009346, E2.2061
Description

Vignacourt is located behind what were the Allies lines for the duration of the war, north west of the city of Amiens.

The town is famously associated with a large number of well-preserved glass plate negative photogrpahs taken by a local photographer and his family, depicting hundreds of Allied soldiers, many Australians among them, who were billeted in the town.  The photogrpahs were discoved by a Channel 7 team led by Ross Coulthart and later purchased for the Australian War Memorial by Mr Kerry Stokes AC.  

The cemetery was begun in April 1918 coinciding with the beginning of the German offensive named "Operation Michael".

There is a very large Australian proportion of the total 584 WW1 burials.

Most of the soldiers buried here died of their wounds during their transit through the medical evacuation chain, in nearby Casualty Clearing Stations.

 

 

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

COWLEY, Robert William Gordon

Service number 4272
Lance Corporal
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 7 Jul 1894

WOODHOUSE, Frederick John Joice

Service number 279
Corporal
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 6 Oct 1894

MACK, Francis James

Service number 4330
Corporal
29th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 18 Nov 1897

DAVIES, Thomas Henry

Service number 401
Private
30th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

MCKAY, Alfred Robert

Service number 5876
Gunner
Born Apr 1888

HILL, Joseph Thomas

Service number 4301
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jul 1886

CURRIE, Charles Norman

Service number 3528A
Private
31st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 21 Jul 1888

KEILLOR, Thomas Henry

Service number 6558
Private
26th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 Jun 1890