Fouquescourt CWGC Cemetery of the Great War
Fouquescourt is a village 35 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt. Fouquescourt village was captured by the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade on 10 August 1918. Fouquescourt British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields in a wide area round the village and other burial grounds, including:- ARVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which contained one unidentified British soldier. ASSEVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY, on the West side of the village, begun by the French (who captured the place in 1916), which contained the graves of ten soldiers and one Royal Marine gunner from the United Kingdom, two soldiers from South Africa and one from Australia. BEAUFORT CHURCHYARD, which contained one British burial of March, 1918. BELLOY-EN-SANTERRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY FRENCH EXTENSIONS, which were two in number, containing respectively the graves of four and eleven soldiers from the United Kingdom. The village was captured by the Foreign Legion in July, 1916, and the British graves were made in 1916 and 1917. CAPPY FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, which was an Extension of the Communal Cemetery North of the village of Cappy, and was used both by French and by German troops. It contained the graves of 590 French soldiers, 213 German, 16 from the United Kingdom and 13 from Australia. The British graves were made in 1915 and 1918. CHAULNES COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (known as the New Military Cemetery by the Railway Station), which contained the graves of 201 German soldiers and three from the United Kingdom who fell in April and May, 1918. ESTREES-DENIECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, at the West end of the village, which contained the grave of one soldier from the United Kingdom. MEHARICOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, on the North side of the Communal Cemetery,
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Location: Fouquescourt British Cemetery, Fouquescourt, France
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