Grave Markers in The German World War One Cemetery, at Fricourt on The Somme Battlefield, France

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Fricourt German War Cemetery is near the village of Fricourt, in the French department of the Somme. With some 17,000 burials, of which about 1,000 died in the autumn of 1914 and the ensuing trench warfare; about 10,000 during the Battle of the Somme from July to November 1916, and the final 6,000 in the Spring Offensive of 1918, also four communal graves, often know as mass graves, contain 11,970 burials, are within the cemetery.

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Location: Fricourt Somme France
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