Puchevillers British Cemetery, France

Cemetery Details

Location Puchevillers, Departement de la Somme - Picardie, France
Co‑ordinates N50.056, E2.39625
Description

Location Information
Puchevillers is a village on the D11 about 19 kilometres north-east of Amiens. The British Cemetery is a little west of the village. The first Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost is situated by the church in the village.

History Information
In June 1916, just before the opening of the Battles of the Somme, the 3rd and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations came to Puchevillers. Plots I to V, and almost the whole of Plot VI were made by those hospitals before the end of March 1917. For the next two months the 2nd/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station used the cemetery. Plot VII contains for the most part the graves of men who died in the German advance in 1918, many of whom were buried by the 49th Clearing Station in March 1918, or by the 48th Labour Group in August. Puchevillers British Cemetery contains 1,763 First World War burials. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

 

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

SNELL, Charles

Service number 3911
Private
4th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

OUGDEN, Frank Leslie

Service number 1798
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 3 Jun 1893

WELLS, Arthur

Service number 2445
Private
22nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

DYSON, Eric Artlett

Service number 13284
Private
Born 1896

ROBSON, Walter Edgar John

Service number 357
Sapper
1st Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1
Born 24 Jun 1887

JAMES, Joseph Henry

Service number 1938
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Sep 1862

WILSON, Osborne

Service number 3929
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Aug 1888

FLOOD, Gregory Archie

Service number 4185
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

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