View from behind the Cross of Sacrifice across the headstones at the small British CWGC Peronne Road, Maricourt, France.
View from behind the Cross of Sacrifice across the headstones at the small British CWGC Peronne Road, Maricourt, France. "Maricourt is a village situated on the Albert-Peronne Road, kilometres from Albert. Maricourt was, at the beginning of the Battles of the Somme, 1916, the point of junction of the British and French forces, and within a very short distance of the front line; it was lost in the German advance of March, 1918, and recaptured at the end of the following August. The Cemetery, originally known as Maricourt Military Cemetery , was begun by fighting units and Field Ambulances in the Battles of the Somme, 1916, and used until August, 1917; a few graves were added later in the War, and at the Armistice it consisted of 175 graves which now form almost the whole of Plot I. It was completed after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields in the immediate neighbourhood and from certain smaller burial grounds. There are now 1348, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 366 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 26 soldiers from the United Kingdom known or believed to be buried among them." (Source: )
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Location: British CWGC Peronne Road, Maricourt, France.
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
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