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

WELLS, Arthur

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

JAMES, Joseph Henry

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

SIMPSON, Neville Wynn

Service number 680
Corporal
17th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 Aug 1887

BEER, Frank

Service number 512
Lance Corporal
51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 2 Apr 1895

LARSEN, George

Service number 3354
Private
15th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 26 Aug 1896

ROSE, James Henry

Service number 4917
Private
5th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 29 Nov 1893

BROWN, Frank

Service number 2807
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Mar 1892

WOODHOUSE, George

Service number 308
Private
24th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 18 Apr 1896

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